Comment by doginasuit

> How can a contributer know if LLM output includes "pre-existing copyrighted materials (including pre-existing code licensed as free software) authored or owned by third parties"?

I use an LLM to write code, but 90% of that usage is code review which raises suggestions or fixes which I go and implement myself. Occasionally I also have the LLM complete a single function that I know it will do correctly because the requirements are all present and unambiguous. Because the content of the function is all based on the unique context of my codebase, it has about the same chance of reproducing someone else's code that I have, nearly zero.

Under those circumstances, I'd be comfortable taking the responsibility that the code is free of legal issues. The LLM assisted review also would make me more confident of the quality of the code and capable of explaining it and justifying it.

This is vastly different from a scenario where a developer has an agent coordinate and write most of the content. There are many different ways to use LLMs and it seems like these policies need to take them into consideration. Developer responsibility for the legality/quality of the code should be no different than non-assisted code, but they could also give examples of safe and beneficial LLM use.