Ironically there is a lot of inflammatory language in the blog post itself that seems unjustified given the source material.

I also can't help but note that this blog post itself seems (first to my own intuition and heuristics, but also to both Pangram and GPTZero) to be clearly LLM-generated text.

I hate to be overly simplistic, but:

NIST doesn't seem to have a financial interest in these models.

The author of this blog post does.

This dichotomy seems to drive most of the "debate" around LLMs.

Honestly, I think this article is itself the hit piece (against NIST or America). And it is the one with inflammatory language.

Isn’t America currently killing its citizens with its own military? I would trust them even less now.

They're not, and I think you should trust whoever told you that even less now.