Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron

Re:Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate... by tempaccount5050 on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @12:36PM (#47936803)

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 performer played it. Most of it is better than any local bands anyway. Tired of people pretending they care.

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Re:Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate... by danny_codes on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @12:45PM (#47936963)

It’s subjective, because it’s art. There’s no right answer.

If you like listening to AI generated content, then that’s fine! I’m glad you found something you enjoy.

For me, I consume art because I want to understand other people. For example, when I go to an art museum I want to emotionally connect with the artist: to feel what they were feeling, or understand an idea they’re conveying. I have little desire to emotionally connect with stochastic token sampling. It seems a vapid way to spend time

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Re:Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate... by unshavedyak on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @12:58PM (#47937185)

You still assume the artist in those examples is real. It could be a team, a ghost artist, etc - yea it's less likely than music, but still. The connection itself is quite difficult too, given the ease in which someone could plagiarize others work - sure they have mechanical skill, but did they really invest in the painting or was it ripped off from others ideas?

I suspect your connection to real artists won't be impacted. This, like the music example, just highlights our assumptions.

I'm not defending this AI garbage fwiw, i just don't think it's as interesting as most people make it out to be. I adore music, and i connect with songs i connect with. I don't typically think about the possible ghost writers, teams of writers, ghost players, etc. The music either speaks to me or it doesn't.

Though i'm not trying to connect to the musician as a person. However, as i was illustrating - if i really wanted to connect to musicians at face value, that ship sailed many, many years ago. Far before AI.

There are ways to mitigate this, but that balance will always be there - it was before AI, and it will be after. It's an evolution. Not an enjoyable one perhaps, but it is nonetheless.

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Re:Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate... by bjelkeman-again on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @12:50PM (#47937054)

I arrange gigs with real bands playing music. At least that will take quite a while to replace with AI. I am curious to see if we will get a backlash eventually around the content. It will probably be a mix of everything.

Storytelling didn’t go away when the theatre was invented. Theatre didn’t go away when cinema arrived. Cinema wasn’t replaced when radio arrived, ad that wasn’t completely replace by TV, etc. It is a mix of things these days and it will probably remain that way.

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Re:Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate... by ncr100 on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @02:59PM (#47938938)

Check out this album, especially Bernard's Boogie, and Horses.

- https://donnybenet.bandcamp.com/album/il-basso

Totally not written by Google.

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Re:Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate... by flipthefrog on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @12:51PM (#47937079)

If Frank Sinatra had Ai he woulnt have had to perform any of that slop by Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Kurt Weill, Rodgers & Hammerstein and other composers no one cares about

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Re:Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate... by slopinthebag on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @12:39PM (#47936861)

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

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

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