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