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.

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sebzim4500 44 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

What possible upside exists for Hugging Face to go after one of their most important partners in that way?

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john_strinlai 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

charged is possible, however i doubt there would be a conviction for the reasons i stated (no intent).

	▲	Grombobulous 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		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.