Yeah, you can tell by the tone that none of this is authentic. A lot of the replies aren't even responding to the article itself, just repeating from a list of grievances

Maybe I'm part of your 'psyop'? I thought this company was amazing six months or a year ago when I didn't know them well. As I got to know them, I realized they were a wolf in sheeps clothing. Reading the OP post made me angry because they seem to be attacking open weight models that are as good as their models and it comes across as either authoritarian or trying to protect their company valuation.

Either way, for me at least, it's an example of the more I read what they want the world to look like, the less I like them as a company and I have no desire to see them succeed.

Thus I actively go out of my way to watch / comment / follow what they are doing. I guess a lot of other people have similar frustrations and so there are a lot of people attacking them online.

That was my thought too. Because it’s just a tsunami of distrustful comments

Not really. It's probably just international users not tolerating american exceptionalist hubris when they see it, especially now that the pretending is done.

Plus, what a shocker it is that a "hacker news" website would have many people with an affinity towards open source technology they can fiddle with and have autonomy over, and a distaste for tech monopolies trying to control and limit access to these tools.