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Re: BlenderGPT

#101

Post by TheRealPomax »

gd3kr wrote: post #31

Hey HN! I'm aarya (twitter.com/gd3kr) and I built BlenderGPT Really overwhelmed with the traffic, will be defaulting to a less compute intensive model for a bit. Will try to keep up with this thread and respond to questions/comments but mostly focused on not letting BlenderGPT crash. BlenderGPT is entirely bootstrapped and i'm really the only one on the team. Also, The required google sign in is only put in place to…

You may need to rename it, though, as this is not an official Blender project. [1]

Even if "Blender" wasn't an officially trademarked name (which it is, in both the US and EU), standing on the shoulders of Open Source also means respecting their rules when it comes to using a project's name to market your own creation.

(Unless you asked for, and received, permission of course. In which case that's something you'll want to mention on the landing page so folks know you did the right thing)

[1] https://www.blender.org/about/logo/#trademark

Re: BlenderGPT

#102

Post by TheRealPomax »

GrantMoyer wrote: post #41

Is BlenderGPT really a registered trademark? Surely it infringes on Blender's (unregistered) trademark, but maybe the registration process only reviews exisiting registered marks, and it'd be up to the Blender Foundation to challenge the use of BlenderGPT. On the other hand, the USPTO trademark search didn't turn up any relevant results for BlenderGPT even though the terms of service on the site seem to indicate a US…

"Unregistered"? Blender is a registered trademark in both the US and the EU. Their brand guideline page explicitly calls out that you are not allowed to use their name in your own product: https://www.blender.org/about/logo/#trademark

Re: BlenderGPT

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Post by [deleted] »

heyheyhouhou wrote: post #78

Just FYI you should avoid using the name Blender in your product From https://www.blender.org/about/logo/ "In short – if you want to start a company or website related to Blender services, avoid using the name Blender in it. You can use it as a secondary tagline though – such as “Awesome Company Inc., the Blender specialists”. Same goes for forks of the Blender software, give it a new name and create a unique brand t…

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Re: BlenderGPT

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Post by [deleted] »

fourside wrote: post #40
gd3kr wrote: post #31

Hey HN! I'm aarya (twitter.com/gd3kr) and I built BlenderGPT Really overwhelmed with the traffic, will be defaulting to a less compute intensive model for a bit. Will try to keep up with this thread and respond to questions/comments but mostly focused on not letting BlenderGPT crash. BlenderGPT is entirely bootstrapped and i'm really the only one on the team. Also, The required google sign in is only put in place to…

Sorry to sound like a party pooper but this project gives off strong “fake it till you make it” vibes. Most AI projects I’ve seen share some type of information on how they work, yet this is completely devoid of it. Is this a new approach to mesh generation or is it using existing tooling? Then you’ve got the “we think it’s really good” line when it’s really just you. Like, why the hand waviness, the use of “GPT” whe…

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Re: BlenderGPT

#105

Post by porphyra »

syntaxing wrote: post #68

Or you can use the free and open source addon from Hugginface themselves and runs locally… https://github.com/huggingface/meshgen

Yeah but a finished textured model is quite different from a low-poly untextured model even though the llama meshgen approach is quite interesting and promising.

Re: BlenderGPT

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Post by Salgat »

terminalbraid wrote: post #3

"Try it out for free!" Demands a google account, as if my personal info is somehow worthless.

You're welcome to make a throwaway gmail account if you want "truly free". And don't try to argue that your time still has value, because then that means nothing is truly free.

Re: BlenderGPT

#107

Post by brailsafe »

knowitnone wrote: post #81
fourside wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry to sound like a party pooper but this project gives off strong “fake it till you make it” vibes. Most AI projects I’ve seen share some type of information on how they work, yet this is completely devoid of it. Is this a new approach to mesh generation or is it using existing tooling? Then you’ve got the “we think it’s really good” line when it’s really just you. Like, why the hand waviness, the use of “GPT” whe…

why does it matter how it works? Either it works and people pay for it or it doesn't. Does every company owe you, the end user, an explanation on how their product works? While you're at it, maybe you can get all the secret recipes.

Well, because we're curious and this is a place where curious critical technology enthusiasts gravitate. If it doesn't do anything novel _at_all_ or if there's no story to elaborate on, go to Reddit.

Plus, many are probably tired of seeing the same thing being made repeatedly that just proxys requests to chatgpt and makes them look pretty.

Re: BlenderGPT

#108

Post by staticman2 »

para_parolu wrote: post #52
cbartlett wrote: post #48

Blender is a registered trademark, I'm pretty sure this has nothing to do with blender. I'm not sure GPT is safe or even correct either.

Bestbuy is full of equipment with Blender in name. How they do it?

The fact that the trademark doesn't merely describe the product is what allows for protection. That's why Apple can be trademarked for a computer product but not for a fruit, as the latter would be merely a description of the product.

Re: BlenderGPT

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Post by meiraleal »

SubiculumCode wrote: post #79
gd3kr wrote: post #31

Hey HN! I'm aarya (twitter.com/gd3kr) and I built BlenderGPT Really overwhelmed with the traffic, will be defaulting to a less compute intensive model for a bit. Will try to keep up with this thread and respond to questions/comments but mostly focused on not letting BlenderGPT crash. BlenderGPT is entirely bootstrapped and i'm really the only one on the team. Also, The required google sign in is only put in place to…

The name is unacceptable. I literally thought this was a project by Blender. You are asking to get sued to oblivion.

will it? It has the potential to bring so many users to Blender. That would be stupid.

Re: BlenderGPT

#110

Post by rqtwteye »

mattigames wrote: post #34

Now we just need startupGPT so we can make those pesky startup founders redundant too!

It’s going to happen. It will move up the chain until it replaces the really powerful people. Replacing them will obviously be made illegal.
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