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Distinction:

- lab leak: researchers catch infected bat; at the laboratory, bat bites researcher; researcher gets COVID

- lab made: researchers modify a virus, and produce SARS-CoV-2; the latter escapes the laborary (in one way or another)

The importance of the lab leak hypothesis is that it doesn't need any conspiracy (a researcher being bitten is nothing strange in itself), but still implies unsafe practices and bad faith by the institutions involved.