Addressing liability and responsibility for LLM-generated code

We need to know what we are liable for when presenting code from LLMs to the public – publishing and/or sharing it. What trouble could we get into, and how do we guard against this trouble?

According to Zerotolive.app, “Code is a liability because every line you write has an ongoing maintenance cost, indefinitely. As nearly any developer will attest, code is never “finished”.” [Zerotolive]

So, we’ve got a lot of work ahead of us.

Let’s start by finding the main types of liability and responsibility from code and LLM-gen code.

Here are various legal issues with AI-generated code:

• Licensing
• Attribution and credit
• Quality and reliability
• Ethical considerations
• Product liability
• Use case restrictions
• Security concerns
• Third-party dependencies

In the following subsections, we will get into the details of these.

Then, we...