Ask HN: I Need Help for a Product

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I have a very high-quality SaaS product that s ready to launch. Everything is complete: the product, testing, LLC, bank account, Stripe, tech stack, etc. But I built it as a programmer trying to create the coolest thing possible for a product I ve always wanted to make. My issue is that using Claude as a lawyer is scaring me. What I consider moral and what seems to be legal are two different things. For context, the product uses an AI pipeline to adapt user-provided content into dramatized formats. Think of it as ebook-to-graphic-audio adaptation (though there are other pipelines). The quality is insanely good, but having users bring copyrighted content they own to be adapted is legally unclear. ElevenLabs doesn t add sound effects, so they re fine, but this involves transcription plus additional steps. Claude s legal responses are also scaring me. Even with aggressive content moderation to reject CSAM-related materials, report to authorities, block users, and include it in the ToS, there s a risk that some things could slip through and I d get sued for massive damages. I also need clarification on whether I m allowed to cache and reuse generated assets. For example, if a sentence like Pizza is good is generated once, can I reuse it a second time at a lower cost instead of regenerating it? I m just a single programmer without infinite capital to license content. Public domain and CC work won t drive the user interest I need. I need real legal advice, but I can t justify spending $5k on a lawyer just to hear this is a bad idea. What can I do?

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