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.