In these uncertain and divisive times, we appreciate Anthropic offering support to the Blender project in the form of a Patron-level membership. This enables the Blender team to keep pursuing projects independently, and to focus on building tools for artists and creators.
Francesco Siddi, CEO at Blender
will they try to pay in tokens
Dude, literally same feed for me
Are non-profits even allowed to refuse donations?
Can I reject someone’s transfer into my bank account? Yes. Then any good legal system allows non-profits to reject donations.
Good legal system you say?
So they donate €240k per year and they have a say in where that money goes? I don’t imagine this will be the AI takeover everyone thinks it is.
Really disappointed by this, this will not be good for Blender.
Really curious why you would say that. Was Anthropic given something in exchange?
Would they need to for it to be worrying?
If we look at only the Blender Development Fund, the list of the corporate patrons include Meta, Google, Nvidia and even Adobe. In general, this is the situation for a lot of FOSS projects. If Anthropic as a Blender patron is bad news, then things were never good in the first place.
In my opinion, whether it’s good or bad, it is a compromise that we rely on.
You’d think so, but from what I’ve personally heard at least… Anthropic seems to mostly be doing right by the community with their contributions like this. I could be falling for the propaganda, but guys are even backing groups pushing for stronger AI guardrails and oversight.
but guys are even backing groups pushing for stronger AI guardrails and oversight.
I’d guess they want restrictions because they want to stay on top? (and keep everyone else down)
The media is pushing that as a solid theory and it’s not crazy. What’s bad for openai is good for anthropic / etc, but there are a lot of places they could be putting that money that would benefit them more directly.
Too late, I have an AI running on a server at home. I love it like that… My know it all bitch. The other way around with only a handful of companies holding all the knowledge is totally crazy.
