In my opinion, it is not vitriol as much as unfiltered recognition of the significant issues and risks that have become a part of DeepSeek’s story: the Chinese government injecting propaganda into LLMs, the threat of apps from adversaries in US app stores (like TikTok and DeepSeek), the disregard for user privacy (their database was open to the Internet with no authentication and no encryption of data), the misleading claim of quoting the cost of a single final run (which amounts to market manipulation of nvidia stock), the theft of OpenAI’s assets that they’ve not admitted to, the likely evasion of sanctions, and so on.