I think that if Hugging Face had filed a police report that OpenAI could have been charged with a crime.
I’m partially surprised that they didn’t do exactly that. If I ran a corporation I would assume any intrusion attempt by another company was intentional. Why wouldn’t I? Corporate espionage is super common.
I assume the answer is that these executives know each other personally.
charged is possible, however i doubt there would be a conviction for the reasons i stated (no intent).
I think it’s most likely you’re right, but I’m the weirdo who thinks there’s actually a non-zero probability that there was negative intent and that the “accidental” aspect is a form of damage control.
If someone broke into my house but then claimed they didn’t mean to when they saw I was home, I’m not sure I’d take them at their word.