If your interpretation were true, it would be hard to understand why Sama also cancelled the entire deal with OpenAI. It's much more likely that a (possibly rogue) employee of OpenAI asked an employee of Sama for those images explicitly as part of additional work on the existing contract. The Sama employee agreed, but when the hire ups found out, they fired them and cancelled the whole deal, since they were not comfortable handling this material (whether for legal reasons, moral reasons, or both is of course unknowable).