What Is KDP AI Disclosure?
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KDP AI disclosure is Amazon's requirement that publishers state whether artificial intelligence created their book's content. During publishing you answer whether the text, images, or translations are AI-generated or AI-assisted. Honest answers keep your book listed; misleading ones risk removal. EarnDraft includes a disclosure page and pre-filled answers. KDP process checked September 2026.
Two questions at publishing: was AI used, and is the content AI-generated or AI-assisted?
KDP figures checked September 2026.
What does Amazon actually ask at publishing?
When you publish through Kindle Direct Publishing, the submission flow asks whether AI tools were used to create your book, and if so, whether the content counts as AI-generated or AI-assisted. AI-generated means a tool produced the content with minimal human direction — chapters drafted by software and published largely as-is. AI-assisted means you created the content and used AI for support: brainstorming, outlining, editing, or polishing your own prose.
Your answers go to Amazon for cataloging, not onto the product page. Readers never see your disclosure responses; they see your title, description, and cover like any other book. Answering yes does not block publication, lower your royalty, or flag your account — it puts the book in the right internal bucket.
The requirement covers text, images, and translations alike. A human-written manuscript with an AI-generated cover still has AI involvement to report on the image side, and the reverse holds for AI-drafted text with a hand-designed cover. When in doubt, disclose — over-reporting costs nothing, while a misleading answer can get the book removed.
AI-generated vs AI-assisted: where is the line?
Amazon's split turns on who did the creating. If the machine drafted chapters and you lightly edited, that is AI-generated. If you wrote the chapters and the machine fixed grammar, tightened sentences, or suggested chapter titles, that is AI-assisted. Most EarnDraft authors land in the first camp for drafts and the second for everything after editing — and both answers are normal, accepted, and publishable.
Think of it as a spectrum with a practical test: could this book exist without the AI's contribution? If the answer is no — the AI wrote the first draft of the substance — call it generated. If the book is recognizably yours and the AI sanded the edges, call it assisted. Document which tools touched the manuscript so your answers stay consistent across retailers.
Keep a one-line production note per book: tool used, what it produced, and what you changed. That note takes thirty seconds to write and answers every future question from any store, not just Amazon.
| Workflow | Likely answer | Example |
|---|---|---|
| AI drafts chapters, light edit | AI-generated | Outline-to-draft tools, published fast |
| You write, AI edits and polishes | AI-assisted | Grammar and clarity passes on your prose |
| AI brainstorms, you write it all | AI-assisted | Title ideas and outlines you execute |
| AI cover on human manuscript | Disclose images | Generated cover art with written chapters |
Why does Amazon require disclosure?
Cataloging is the boring, real reason. Amazon lists millions of titles and needs to know how each was produced to manage quality, handle customer questions, and respond to regulators circling AI-made media. Disclosure gives them that metadata without judging your process.
The policy also protects honest authors. When every AI-made book is labeled internally, stores can spot spam operations flooding categories with unedited machine output — the behavior that actually gets books removed. A disclosed, edited, well-formatted book from a tool like EarnDraft is exactly what the system is designed to accept.
Expect sibling stores to converge on similar questions. Apple Books and other retailers already probe provenance in their own ways, so a disclosure habit built for KDP transfers everywhere. Your production note becomes a publish-everywhere asset.
What do honest answers look like in practice?
Picture a coach who types one sentence into EarnDraft, gets a five-chapter lead-magnet draft with a cover, then spends a weekend rewriting stories, adding client examples, and tightening every chapter. At publishing she answers that AI was used and the content is AI-generated — because the first draft was machine-made — and uploads the included disclosure page with her files. The book publishes normally.
Contrast the risky version: the same draft published untouched with AI questions answered no. The listing looks identical on day one, but the answers are false, and false answers are what trigger removals when Amazon audits or a reader reports the book. The disclosure itself was never the obstacle; dishonesty is.
The pattern generalizes: disclose the strongest AI involvement anywhere in the pipeline, keep your production note, and move on. Two checkboxes and one included page are the entire administrative burden.
Example answers
AI used? Yes. Content type? AI-generated text (machine first draft, human edited) and AI-assisted cover direction. Files include a disclosure page stating the tools used. Total extra publishing time: under five minutes.
How does EarnDraft handle disclosure for you?
Every EarnDraft book ships with a disclosure page in the exported files stating that AI assistance was used, plus a publishing checklist with the listing answers pre-filled so you can copy them straight into KDP. You always review and submit the answers yourself — the tool prepares the paperwork, you sign it.
Because the exports include PDF, EPUB, and DOCX with the disclosure page already inside, the same files satisfy every retailer's version of the question without reformatting. And the commercial license included with paid plans means the rights side is settled too: you own the output and keep your retail earnings.
If you publish under a pen name, disclosure works the same way — Amazon ties the answers to your account, not your author name, so the pen name on the cover is unaffected. One honest account, as many pen names as your catalog needs.
- Draft with the How-To Guide Generator so disclosure paperwork ships with the files.
- Disclosure page included in every export automatically.
- KDP listing answers pre-filled in the publishing checklist.
- You review and submit — nothing is filed on your behalf.
- Same files work for every retailer, not just Amazon.