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They already have corporate sponsorships from Google, Meta, Nvidia, and other big companies. Anthropic is just joining the list. This is actually good for Blender.

This is not bad news.

If Blender doesn't grow AI capabilities, its utility in the future will be severely degraded.

If you haven't seen 3D mesh, texturing, PBR, and retopo tools, they're getting extremely good.

Weird attitude when 3D artists LOVE AI powered denoising and upscaling. Praying for the day AI makes it so I never have to UV unwrap a mesh again.

Yes, Claude is the AI doing my denoising. I keep running out of tokens with my 4k renders.

AI is a nebulous term. AI denoisers are not the same thing as an LLM or image gen model, the ire is directed at LLMs and not AI denoisers because they are completely different things.

Stable Diffusion started it's life as a denoiser.

Wasn't this one called "machine learning" for denoising and upscaling? That's completely different from an LLM replacing your job (after being trained on your work without permission).

Denoisers and upscalers don't make authorial decisions. This is a stupid comparison.

It's clear that the beef Artists vs AI is clearly about genAI and not about other kind of AI