The $5M number is Chinese propaganda, designed to slow investment in American AI startups, service their own shorts against American titans like Nvidia, and hide sanction evasion.
America is a fertile bed for psyops like this because our media apparatus hates our technology companies and wants to see President Trump fail.
Refusing to talk about Tank Man
What happens when you ask it to criticize Xi
Remember how little they pay their people and it might be possible. It also shows that all AI has a prejudice built into it by whoever writes the code or the information it scrapes