New Amazon guidelines to disclose use of AI

Amazon has updated its Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) guidelines to require users to acknowledge AI-generated content, reports the Bookseller.

The new guidelines distinguish between AI-generated content and AI-assisted content, which does not need to be disclosed. In a post announcing the new guidelines, Amazon said it is ‘actively monitoring the rapid evolution of generative AI and the impact it is having on reading, writing and publishing’.

‘Beginning today [6 September], when you publish a new title or make edits to and re-publish an existing title through KDP, you will be asked whether your content is AI-generated,’ Amazon wrote. ‘As always, whether publishers make use of AI technologies or not, all books in our store must adhere to our KDP Content Guidelines, including the requirement that you accurately inform us when content is AI-generated.’

Amazon defines AI-generated content as text, images, or translations created by an AI-based tool. The guidance states: ‘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.’

Earlier this year, the Washington Post reported that books entirely generated by AI were flooding Amazon’s marketplace.

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