You see how OpenAI is already spinning it.
"We know PRC based companies...distill the models of leading US AI companies...As the leading builder of AI, we engage in countermeasures to protect our IP,...including a careful process for which frontier capabilities to include in released models...it is...important that we are working closely with the US government to best protect the most capable models from efforts by adversaries & competitors to take US technology.”
https://www.404media.co/openai-furious-deepseek-might-have-stolen-all-the-data-openai-stole-from-us/