Amazon KDP requires you to disclose AI-generated content, but not AI-assisted content, and it asks about text, images and translations separately. Walk your actual workflow through the policy and get a per-type verdict, with the exact KDP guideline each verdict rests on.
Answer one question for each content type. KDP asks about text, images and translations separately, so a book can be AI-assisted in one place and AI-generated in another.
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KDP's dividing line is who created the actual content. Its guidelines state: “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.” By contrast, content you created yourself and then used AI tools to edit, refine, error-check, or otherwise improve is AI-assisted, as is work where you “used an AI-based tool to brainstorm and generate ideas, but ultimately created the text or images yourself”. AI-generated content must be disclosed to Amazon; AI-assisted content does not need to be. You must “inform us of AI-generated content (text, images, or translations) when you publish a new book or make edits to and republish an existing book through KDP”, so the question comes back every time you republish an edited edition.
Source: Amazon KDP Content Guidelines, Artificial intelligence (AI) content section,kdp.amazon.com help topic G200672390, fetched 2026-07-20. Full verbatim quotes and provenance in the tool's source notes. Amazon can change this policy at any time; if you are about to hit publish, read the live page too.
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Only for AI-generated content. KDP requires publishers to "inform us of AI-generated content (text, images, or translations) when you publish a new book or make edits to and republish an existing book through KDP". If an AI tool created the actual text, images or translations, that is AI-generated and must be disclosed. If you created the content yourself and used AI to edit, refine, error-check, or otherwise improve it, that is AI-assisted and does not need to be disclosed.
Yes. KDP's guidelines state: "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." Editing, even substantial editing, does not reclassify AI-generated content as AI-assisted. The category depends on who created the original content.
No. KDP treats it as AI-assisted if you "used an AI-based tool to brainstorm and generate ideas, but ultimately created the text or images yourself". The dividing line is whether the AI tool produced the actual content or you did.
Yes. The disclosure requirement covers text, translations and images, including "cover and interior images and artwork". Each content type is considered separately, so a human-written book with an AI-generated cover still requires an images disclosure.
The disclosure is made to Amazon during publishing. KDP's guidelines (as fetched on the date shown below) do not state that the disclosure is displayed to buyers on the book's product page.
No. KDP states publishers are responsible for ensuring "all AI-generated and/or AI-assisted content adheres to all content guidelines, including by complying with all applicable intellectual property rights". Disclosure is separate from, and in addition to, meeting the content guidelines.
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