LLM Alignment Strategy for a Resource-Constrained Organization

A technology startup has access to a powerful, pre-trained language model. However, they operate with a limited budget, which restricts their access to the large-scale computing clusters required for extensive model retraining. Their goal is to quickly deploy a chatbot that avoids generating harmful or biased content. Which of the following approaches is the most logical for them to adopt, and why?

Comparing LLM Alignment Strategies: Fine-Tuning vs. Inference-Time