Anthropic must be in some way better in that they do have some red lines and do truly stand on them (and if they didn’t, like every other company doesn’t seem to, we’d never have even known)?

anthropic previously agreed to deploy their models in this context with nothing but a contract to enforce their red lines -- they even disabled their safety systems!

per announcement, openai can include safety systems of their own making, including ones to prevent their red lines from being crossed. that seems to be a more robust solution, including in the face of an untrustworthy government

Notice that Anthropic doesn't support spying on Americans specifically - spying on anyone else is fine. Can't spy on three specific 300m people, but spying on the other 7.7B totally ok.

Well, yes.

But the desire and ability to control non-citizens en masse is nothing like the threat a government is to its own citizens.

In practice the two activities have very different natures and impact.

Except most of the world's population, and in fact large fraction of the engineers and scientists working on these things, are not US citizens.

Why does every new app and website use this off white color and that one font?

The Google sign in button doesn’t work and you do nothing to explain why it’s better.