Just trying to have the limelight back on them. Utter and complete bullshit. Just like the OpenAI "incident".

A human instructed an LLM to perform a certain task, I'm sure (unless I've really lost my mind) these follow instructions, with some judgment, in a loop.

Given all the other negative publicity around industrial espionage, with at least OpenAI being fingered, it would not surprise me if this was intentional.

(Edit): In case it wasn't clear. I fully agree with the op.