idk, openAI products are pretty useful for me and I can use them now, wheras bard is borderline useless (and not even available yet here). Not only that, regular people seem to resonate with openAI products. Just because they aren't literally perfect in every way isnt a reason not to release them, these arent self driving cars, they write text for goodness sake.
Sure, eventually there will be case where someone asks if its safe to drink chlorine and it will say yes or whatever, but banning/refusing to release/heavily restricting a minor miracle of productivity and usefullness so it can literally never say something harmful is on its face obviously impossible and counterproductive
Yes this point about iteration is the most crucial, if no one is using your product then there's both no way to make it better and no way to ensure it doesn't do bad things with each version
Sure, eventually there will be case where someone asks if its safe to drink chlorine and it will say yes or whatever, but banning/refusing to release/heavily restricting a minor miracle of productivity and usefullness so it can literally never say something harmful is on its face obviously impossible and counterproductive