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
Would they need to for it to be worrying?
There needs to be some reason for it to be worrying, and I’m not seeing it. So what is it?
The mindset of AI obsessed CEOs and tech people is toxic towards progress in any meaningful sense, having Anthropic anywhere near Blender is an awful idea for Blender’s competency and power as a software since AI people are universally all bullshitters.
Anthropic is NOT PROFITABLE, what is Anthropic sponsoring Blender with? Even if I didn’t think Anthropic was a bunch of scammers that you don’t want to associate with they don’t even have anything to give, Anthropic IS NOT PROFITABLE AND HAS NO CLEAR ROUTE TO BEING PROFITABLE.
The distraction of building stupid AI capabilities into Blender is a massive waste of time that will suck up more and more development time if the culture of Anthropic is allowed to degrade the Blender Community. I am learning Blender so I CAN USE IT not tell a stupid, shitty broken glitchy AI to try to cobble together something I want.
Oh so the CEO is being given control over the direction of the project?
Oh so when Anthropic starts to go under they’re going to get their money back?
What AI capabilities are being built into Blender?
E: No answers were provided. Just downvote and move on, I suppose.