Authors who self-publish using Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing platform must disclose if their content is AI-generated.
Amazon changed its guidelines in large part due to pressure from authors and writers’ groups like The Author’s Guild that seek to protect the copyrighted work of human writers.

In an open letter to CEOs of prominent AI companies signed by 10,000 writers, The Authors Guild argues that generative AI threatens to damage the writing profession “by flooding the market with mediocre, machine-written books, stories, and journalism” based on their work.
AI systems are trained on the copyrighted material of human authors, and output by these systems can be created in the style of well-known authors—who have not given permission or been compensated for their content being used as training data.

Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing’s new rules define AI-generated content as “text, images, or translations created by an AI-based tool” and tells users “if you used an AI-based tool to create the actual content (whether text, images, or translations), it is considered ‘AI-generated,’ even if you applied substantial edits afterwards.”

AI-assisted content does not need to be disclosed. KDP defines AI-assisted content as text and images “you created yourself and used AI-based tools to edit, refine, error-check, or otherwise improve” and explains, “If you used an AI-based tool to brainstorm and generate ideas, but ultimately created the text or images yourself, this is also considered “AI-assisted” and not “AI-generated.”

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