Baking in western social norms, and eventually all global regional ones, is a big competitive advantage. The corporate side doesn't want ethical but bland. Even most coloring outside of those lines should still be bland too - think Disneyificatian vs independent film & alternative media.

Speaking as someone doing LLMs with banks, gov agencies, etc, and recognizing enterprise is ~1/2 of b2b and the US market is huge for tech.. this isn't super different from bringing in a consultant who will get actively/passively fired vs not for pissing off the customer. In most cases, we'd take inoffensive vs slightly better just to head off that huge risk.

I suspect most researchers don't think this way, but hard to avoid at the leadership ($$$$) level, that's just modern business culture, and that's who funds it ultimately