OpenAI isn't a convincing source. Of course they're going to blame everything on someone else. They don't want to acknowledge the very real hate for AI that people have. It's also extremely likely that they themselves are involved in the very same thing but to push AI instead.

The next time someone calls me an asshole I’m going to blame Chinese propaganda. Surely it’s that and not my personality.

Do you consider the American fight for Civil rights to have been motivated by Nazi (or Soviet) propaganda? Would one's opposition to the Nazis preclude them from supporting Civil Rights based on some truth exploited by Nazi propagandist?

1. https://perspectives.ushmm.org/item/german-leaflet-for-black...