> The backlash can't be worse than creating crippled products that will be surpassed by competitors Of course it can. Like 50% of efforts in safety are to stop

> The backlash can't be worse than creating crippled products that will be surpassed by competitors Of course it can. Like 50% of efforts in safety are to stop the model outputting popular lies, oft-repeated software bugs and slanderous hallucinated falsehoods. If Mistral puts out a model it's only downloaded by enthusiasts who understand its limitations, and doesn't get a load of scrutiny from journalists in the way Apple and Google products do. If sometimes it falsely claims Richard Stallman was arrested for lassoing a police officer - Mistral won't see any blowback from that. On the other hand, if Google released that model, and pushed it hard in search and whatnot, so search results started including such false claims - that's going to get a lot more notice.