Comment by Grombobulous

Regarding your three explanations, I’ve wondered to myself under a circumstance of options 1 or 2 why Hugging Face decided not to file a police report and request to press charges?

OpenAI is essentially a competitor and they broke into their network illegally. If I was their legal department I wouldn’t take their “honest” explanation at face value. What if they’re lying? Shouldn’t a court be involved for something like this?

With this logic I think explanation #3 becomes incredibly likely.