No data goes to Anthropic from Blender. At all. See also: https://fund.blender.org/funding-policy/

And Blender tries to get funding from many different donors so that no single one can have any sway over them. Anthropic, as disgusting as they are, are just one more donor. Epic, Nvidia, Google, CoreWeave are also patrons. I don't worry about that donation.

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sassymuffinz 2 days ago | parent [-]

> "No data goes to Anthropic from Blender."

You know, for now...

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panzi 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

It simply won't happen. There would be riots, mass exodus of sponsors, and forks that simply patch out any such "feature".

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DonHopkins 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

This is idiotic. Blender runs an open development process. It's all out in the open, and they would never do such a thing. Obviously you know nothing about the Blender developer community, and you're not qualified to speculate without even bothering to do the most basic research, so your posts are much worse than any hallucinating ai slop, just insulting the work and integrity of hard working dedicated people. Your histrionic conspiracy theory posts in this discussion are absolutely off the rails, detached from reality, and your ignorant mindless attacks on Blender are helping nobody but Autodesk.

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sassymuffinz 2 days ago | parent [-]

I think you missed my point completely - I am not attacking Blender, I'm attacking the Anthropic. You think Dario woke up this morning and just felt like doing charity? Or do you think there's an underlying business reason for getting into this space? If you believe they're doing it because they're lovely people I'm afraid we'll disagree about that.

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DonHopkins a day ago | parent [-]

Yes you most certainly are attacking Blender, accusing Blender developers of being in on a conspiracy of checking in code to Blender that sends data to Anthropic.

And your conspiracy theory about the Blender developers selling out to Anthropic and secretly checking in code (that anyone can see since it's public) that sends data to Anthropic is objectively idiotic.

Unity donated a lot of money to Blender too. Do you have any evidence that Blender sends data to Unity?

Can you point to the code in Blender that sends data to Unity? Or is your conspiracy theory that the official Blender builds contain secret spy code that is not checked into the repo? How many Blender developers are in on this conspiracy, and how have they kept it secret until now, now that you publicly announced your accusations that they intentionally spy on their users in exchange for donations from sponsors?

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sassymuffinz 18 hours ago | parent [-]

I think you'll find my original parent comment said "You know, for now..." - as in they aren't doing it yet. But do you really think Dario cracked open his wallet for fun without some later expectation of a return on investment? The Blender devs willingly or not are now frogs on the boil until the soulless ghouls over at Anthropic come calling.

	▲	panzi 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They didn't enter in any obligations. It's a donation.