To me it seems like an obvious case of reputational risk being much larger for more prominent organizations than for smaller ones. It makes sense for Google to

To me it seems like an obvious case of reputational risk being much larger for more prominent organizations than for smaller ones. It makes sense for Google to wait for some startup to "go first" in releasing a model largely without controls. That way, some random startup takes the initial heat of "people are using AI for bad things!!" headlines plastering tech blogs. Then Google can do basically the same thing a little bit later, and any attack pieces will sound old hat.