Legal Aspects for Software Developers Interested in Generative AI Applications
It provides practical guidance for software developers to mitigate legal risks in GenAI product development, but is incremental as it summarizes existing knowledge.
The article addresses the legal risks of liability in data protection and copyright for software developers integrating Generative AI into products, summarizing key aspects to avoid critical mistakes.
Recent successes in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) have led to new technologies capable of generating high-quality code, natural language, and images. The next step is to integrate GenAI technology into products, a task typically conducted by software developers. Such product development always comes with a certain risk of liability. Within this article, we want to shed light on the current state of two such risks: data protection and copyright. Both aspects are crucial for GenAI. This technology deals with data for both model training and generated output. We summarize key aspects regarding our current knowledge that every software developer involved in product development using GenAI should be aware of to avoid critical mistakes that may expose them to liability claims.