French Open-Source Lucie Sparks Service Suspension

Linagora Group and the OpenLLM-France consortium launched the open-source chatbot Lucie last Thursday and suspended its public service by Saturday after the bot produced inaccurate and unsafe outputs, including incorrect math, illegal drug recipes, and odd food suggestions. The company said Lucie is a raw academic research model lacking RLHF guardrails and will remain offline for further safety and reliability work. The release aims to gather French-language data but highlights risks of public launches.