After quite a lot of backlash following the Blender announcement that Anthropic would become a Corporate Sponsor, the Blender Foundation released a statement.
After quite a lot of backlash following the Blender announcement that Anthropic would become a Corporate Sponsor, the Blender Foundation released a statement.
I acknowledge that we are reading their press release with different amounts of charity, and that if you view them as communicating in good faith, your interpretation is reasonable.
I will note that on Mastodon they said they had changed their post to improve the optics to the community. This is also a reframe for optics.
They didn’t say they weren’t going to harvest your actions to train generative AI, they only said they’re not putting the generative tools in the app for the users.
Like I said, they’re taking the money, they’re still buddies with Anthropic, they say this was personally negotiated.
Look at how Harvard interacted with Jeffrey Epstein, same playbook here. Just cause the president of the university was flying on Epstein’s plane and honeymooning on his island doesn’t mean he had influence over Harvard! He wasn’t on the board of trustees!
Blender harvesting data to train gen AI would blow up in their faces so badly Anthropic would have had to donate a lot of money to make it worthwhile. And have you looked at the list of Development Fund members? Meta, Google and Adobe are already on there. I’m not sure that taking money from one more company that would be interested in that data really tips the scales.