I still don't follow. "We should publish a harmful product when instead we could continue refining and instead publish a good product at the same time as everyo

I still don't follow. "We should publish a harmful product when instead we could continue refining and instead publish a good product at the same time as everyone else" is a good strategy. This is ultimately only an issue if you think Google's models are significantly worse (and that's related to the lack of public testing). That assumption doesn't seem justified.