Yes, exactly. How the heck? It makes no sense to me either, but you can certainly find plenty of laymen/not-in-the-know folks making those kinds of comments, often in non-technical spaces. Often the worst parts of the internet where discourse is non-existent. Human psychology allows for us to hold many contradictory positions all at once. Ideologies are the lens through which we view the world and it distorts our perception.

Usually what I see is not that, but that Deepseek stole from American capital by training on the O1 release to acheive chain of thought, but there is a contradiction because o1 at the time didn't show its real chain of thought to train on.