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Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron

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Re: Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron

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> improve foundational features like the Blender Python API, which enables developers and artists alike So they want claude to be able to talk to blender

This might actually be quite nice - the Blender Python API is currently very useful and very touchy. Lots of differences in behavior in headless mode which are hard to debug (because you can't open the GUI to see what's happening, because that changes the behavior).

Re: Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron

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> improve foundational features like the Blender Python API, which enables developers and artists alike So they want claude to be able to talk to blender

There is already a Blender MCP. It works-ish! But could be a lot better in understanding 3D space.

As an amateur this is really exciting - but not sure about folks that are real pros at this stuff.

Re: Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron

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Can you imagine going to a football match and second-guessing which are the players who look human, but skin-deep are actually androids made at a factory? This is what it feels like with music and literature right now with so much AI. There are some pockets where you still can say "that's human-made", like 3D-rendered feature films with some particular artistic direction. That, it seems, AI companies also want it to…

The pearl clutching over the pedigree of art is getting tiring. No one has really ever cared. Most mainstream music is written by corporate teams. Elvis didn't write his own music. Frank Sinatra didn't write his own music. Nearly all pop artists don't. But suddenly, people are now clamoring for art, but they never gave a shit to begin with. Most people can't tell AI written music from anything else if a human perform…

Did Frank Sinatra have an AI write his music? Did Elvis?

If not, doesn't your argument entirely miss the point?

Re: Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron

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post #40

Can you imagine going to a football match and second-guessing which are the players who look human, but skin-deep are actually androids made at a factory? This is what it feels like with music and literature right now with so much AI. There are some pockets where you still can say "that's human-made", like 3D-rendered feature films with some particular artistic direction. That, it seems, AI companies also want it to…

> like 3D-rendered feature films with some particular artistic direction. This is a really interesting example. Why do you foresee artistic direction going away as a result of AI? More importantly: why didn't we lose that with the transitions through the years of special effects - i.e., from practical to 3D-rendered?

It's not an uncommon opinion that we did lose artistic direction and aesthetics by moving to vfx - the ability to edit more and more things in post to change the direction or plot of a film personally seems like it's enabled more design by committee in marvel films, etc

Re: Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron

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Can you imagine going to a football match and second-guessing which are the players who look human, but skin-deep are actually androids made at a factory? This is what it feels like with music and literature right now with so much AI. There are some pockets where you still can say "that's human-made", like 3D-rendered feature films with some particular artistic direction. That, it seems, AI companies also want it to…

Yesterday I saw a clip that went "viral" of a few hogs chased by a humanoid robot somewhere in Poland. I had to watch it a few times to figure out if it was real or generated. I still wasn't 100% sure. Asked around in a group, and apparently it's been widely reported on regular news, so I guess it's real? But we're slowly getting to the point where you won't be able to tell, especially from a short clip on a phone.

Re: Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron

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Can you imagine going to a football match and second-guessing which are the players who look human, but skin-deep are actually androids made at a factory? This is what it feels like with music and literature right now with so much AI. There are some pockets where you still can say "that's human-made", like 3D-rendered feature films with some particular artistic direction. That, it seems, AI companies also want it to…

AI is currently the worse it will ever be. 18 months ago it couldn't draw hands.

Re: Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron

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It's because LLMs will soon start building real-world objects via CAD. This is the first step. Look at things like the Adam plugin for Onshape. Works great with Opus. It built a toy car for me with one prompt.

If this is the case, they’ll want to improve the NURBS support within Blender. You can get some amazing results with subd, but digital twins require accuracy and you get that with NURBS geometry. Fortunately, Blender supports it already, it just needs some attention to tooling.

Re: Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sadly so and it is the people who don't even fund open source projects.

Yep. Anthropic's motives are obviously self-interested (Cluade Blender integration), but I'm not donating to Blender, are you? That's the problem, we all want Blender to be able to pick and choose donations, but when all OSS is cash-strapped, it is easier said than done. I'd prefer Blender get some additional funding out of this AI bubble at least.

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Re: Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron

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There will be community backlash. And it will not be uncalled for. Sad news.

I don't think they can tell Blender what to do. As such it's just more money for Blender! Yes, Anthropic can use the Python API to do their AI BS, but an improved Python API is also good for anyone else. This doesn't mean that Blender themselves are integrating any gen AI (if you don't already count the denoise filters). Do you really think Blender should have denied the donation?
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