I think the person you're replying to is trying to draw a parallel to the common "china cheats" narrative that centers copyright and "stealing" designs.

That's what AI companies are doing to cut costs dramatically, but since it's domestic, there's a sudden apathy towards the original claims.

Which(if any of this ever fucking mattered at all) would undermine the years long campaign of china-hate that at it's core, was large Capital holders being upset their outsourcing plan backfired once China was no longer a captive third-world backwater.

So here in the "west" we created our own machine to speed up the Chinese "Shanzai" and pretend like it's suddenly innovation instead of theft.

This whole situation is why one should never, ever trust the rich man's opinion on foreigners, as it's always always always just to line their pockets.