Blender change the Anthropic AI funding deal, with discussions planned for AI Policies

Wait, the implication here is that there are good corporations?

I'm more on the side of "never stop an adversary from making a mistake".

If they give their dirty money but have no control or power over you, take it and use it for your own agenda.

Sometimes, evil corporations want to use a FLOSS tool for exactly the same things as its other users do, so if they give money to the developers to use to do what the users want, everyone benefits. Other times, evil corporations want to buy some of the good reputation of a FLOSS tool and/or infect it with their toxic reputation as a marketing strategy, and only evil benefits.

Could be worse, and it's free money.

If they have a significant amount of money to donate to a foundation the odds are they're evil anyway.

Foundations can just not get enough money and collapse, if you want.

Yeah I'm 100% sure they are doing this A) for good PR (blender is a beloved app and funding them is awesome) b) to retain communication with the team for easier agent integration later c) to lobby for their AI.

I can totally understand that it doesn't look great if blender accepts the money.

I am sure though that blender could probably need the money; open source software is criminally underfunded and those devs need money to survive at the end of the day.

Likely nothing in this case since they aren't going to be a full sponsor anymore. I believe real full sponsors can have some impact on the direction of feature development but that isn't bad because it's open source and adding features large companies want and will pay to have developed in open source tools isn't bad.

"No generative AI functionality is currently available or planned to be integrated in Blender"

Did you read the article? Blender isn't doing AI stuff.