Yeah. They and Altman in particular did a ton of shady stuff during the last peak of hype around open models: accusations that turned out to be outright made up (there's zero chance R1 ever distilled their model), obvious coordinated media distractions, alignment scaremongering, even possible DDoS and hacking attempts against DS (see the Xlab report everyone ignored), all of which magically disappeared once the hype died a bit later as OAI hastily released their next model.

Their alignment is under suspicion a lot more than their model's.