@IsThisA3DModel@shanedk@Blender I'll repeat it again. Understand one thing: this is a blow @Blender's reputation, and you're happy about it. Just if you have time, look at Blender's annual financial reports and consider whether they would willingly give up a major patron.
Anyone celebrating this needs to remember that Ton Roosendaal was not against AI. He announced the Blender Lab project in 2023 specifically to integrate, among other features, AI.
"If Blender wants to stay relevant, we have to be ready for that... otherwise we might lose it and become obsolete".
@IsThisA3DModel@shanedk@Blender Understand one thing: this is a blow @Blender's reputation, and you're happy about it. Just if you have time, look at Blender's annual financial reports and consider whether they would willingly give up a major patron.
@IsThisA3DModel@shanedk@Blender Oh yeah... and there is no mockery about Meshy ai running out of patrons. There is No bullying of people who ask legitimate questions about why Anthropic can't be a patron. Don't pretend you don't understand what's going on.
@IsThisA3DModel@shanedk Yes it is! You Don`t help @Blender at all! You're hindering its development simply because of your own ideas about reality. Have you considered what the community really wants? Maybe people want a modern tool that can compete with Houdini and Cinema 4D.
@IsThisA3DModel@shanedk You once donated $250 to Blender. You bragged to your 70k followers. And that made you Blender's main defender against AI? Your actions are discrediting the Blender community to the CG world and investors who could help develop this program. What kind of hypocrisy is this?
Gee. Now a wonderful open source project gets less funding because of you anti-AI assholes. And you claim to be FOR the artists??? YOU ARE NOT!!! Once again, you're only shown to be for the big content cartels against the smaller artists and open source projects.
@Alex_Neverm1nd@bluesquidmagpie@TheMG3D@IsThisA3DModel@Blender If only you could read and, most importantly, understand what's written. I meant Blender! How did GenAi harm Blender? Or are you just throwing that word around without any meaning, idiot?
@almmaasoglu Why do all these "true free artists" even use computers? Let them go paint on an easel and a potter's wheel! What do they need technology for?!
@Alex_Neverm1nd@bluesquidmagpie@TheMG3D@IsThisA3DModel What was fine? What does genai have to do with it? You're delusional! @Blender has always lacked resources, so most of these how they called "artists" simply don't donate. How are you suggesting companies survive in capitalism?! Feed on the Holy Spirit? What naive nonsense!?
Everything that's happening with the @Blender and its "community" right now teeters on the brink of good and evil. Have you ever looked at the Blender Foundation's annual reports and their expenses? Have you ever wondered why the Foundation asks for donations every year?
@J_Lee_Design@LudensLudonauta Have you ever seen Blender's annual earnings reports? And why does the fund constantly ask for help? Has there ever been any question about the fund being on its last legs?