A lot of the hostility in the west likely comes from most of the CEO talk about how they want to use this tool to make you obsolete and homeless. The Chinese models have largely just been released for free for anyone to use.
>Since China has a population of 1.4 billion people with vastly differing levels of cognition, I find it difficult to claim I can summarize "modern Chinese culture"
Well, they would modify it slightly to claim "real American culture is..." In general, the range of 'real' America is about 300 miles, in my experience.