What Yihui Xie thinks about Anthropic

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Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.

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1. 3 May 2026

   Our readingThe moral debt for AI's capabilities is owed to the authors of the public data used to train it, not to the AI companies.

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   Their wordsWe owe a debt, not to companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google, but to the authors of the free public raw materials that were used to train AI.

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