alt Hacker NewsThey didn't do it due to backlash but they have the capability and more importantly the culture to do so. It is correct that the government doesn't want anything to do with a company who'd act like that. By the way you're moving your argument, first you said "stop working" and when I proved you wrong then you talked about why it has any relevancy. You're the one who asked in the first place.
Actually, what I said was "Once the code is written, anthropic has not plausible form of control."
To which you brought up something that still wasn't relevant.
The government is perfectly able to choose not to work with contractors it doesn't like. That's not this.