I'm empathetic to how damn hard it is to raise funding for FOSS nonprofits. That's a large portion of my job, and well, money has gotten a lot tighter lately. Finding anything at all, paying your people, is damn hard.

I do wonder if that's an influence on:

https://mastodon.social/@Blender/116482997785333001

I wasn't going to comment on it, but I guess it feels particularly timed with this announcement from the other side:

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-creative-work

Bummer. Blender is still my favorite software, but I'm worried about how this will affect artists. Blender is 100% controllable in every way via its very good Python API. It's not surprising that there's interest to control it from AI agents.

I won't take myself out of the loop of producing my own artwork, and I don't think any software will replace Blender as my favorite graphics software, but I am bummed out by this.

I hope Blender doesn't start incorporating genAI contributions into its codebase also.