# AI-assisted vs AI-generated: what is the difference?

On Amazon KDP, AI-generated content is text, images or translations an AI tool created, even if you edited them heavily afterwards. AI-assisted content is what you created yourself and improved, checked or brainstormed with an AI tool. KDP asks you to declare the first, not the second.

Last reviewed 30 October 2026. Web page: https://chapbook.ink/glossary/ai-assisted-vs-ai-generated/

## What it means in practice

The line is who created the content, not how much you changed it afterwards. Brainstorming with an AI tool and then writing the text yourself is AI-assisted. Having a tool write a chapter and then editing it heavily is AI-generated, in KDP's terms.

KDP's question covers text, images and translations, and AI-generated images include the cover and interior art. Whichever answer applies, KDP holds you responsible for checking that all the content follows its guidelines, including intellectual property rights.

These are KDP's definitions. Other stores may draw the line elsewhere, so check their rules when you publish there.

## How Chapbook uses it

Chapbook doesn't answer for you. Under **AI-generated content** in [the KDP listing](/manual/launch-and-export/#answer-kdps-ai-question), it shows what your book's history records, such as the share of the final words you wrote or rewrote by hand, beside KDP's definitions in KDP's own words.

The free [AI-generated or AI-assisted helper](/tools/kdp-ai-disclosure-helper/) puts your answers on one side of KDP's line or the other, and [our guide to KDP's AI disclosure](/guides/kdp-ai-disclosure/) goes through the question itself. By that line, the sample on this page is AI-generated: its caption says it was generated from one brief and exported unedited.

## Made with Chapbook: The Pricing Playbook

The Pricing Playbook: How founders set a price they can defend, by Jane Founder. Nonfiction book, 9,862 words, 43 pages. A sample generated from one brief and exported unedited; it is not a customer's book. Read every page: https://chapbook.ink/examples/nonfiction/

The brief:

> A repeatable method for pricing software: customer interviews, a value metric, tiering, and setting numbers you can defend. Promise: A repeatable method for setting a price you can defend to customers, investors and yourself, validated by ten customer interviews in a week. Reader: A founder who priced by guessing or by copying a competitor and now has to defend or change the number. Voice: Direct second person with occasional first person; worked examples with fictional companies; tables where they clarify; no invented statistics or named studies: reason from mechanics and examples.

The outline the planner proposed:

1. Introduction (620 words)
2. Why Guessing Fails (1,014 words)
3. What You Are Actually Selling (1,004 words)
4. Interview Ten Customers (1,088 words)
5. Choose the Value Metric (979 words)
6. Draft Three Tiers (1,076 words)
7. Set the Numbers (1,130 words)
8. Say the Price Out Loud (1,063 words)
9. Revisit Every Quarter (994 words)
10. Conclusion (384 words)
11. Appendix: The Interview Script (475 words)

## Questions

### Does heavy editing make AI text AI-assisted?

Not by KDP's definition. KDP says content an AI-based tool created counts as AI-generated, “even if you applied substantial edits afterwards”.

### Is a book drafted in Chapbook AI-generated?

Chapters Chapbook drafts from your brief are created by an AI tool, which KDP's definition calls AI-generated even after substantial edits. Chapbook's KDP listing shows how much of the final text you wrote or rewrote by hand; the answer is yours.

### Is this page legal advice?

No. It reports KDP's published definitions as checked on 30 October 2026. KDP's own page decides and can change, so read it before you publish.

## Sources

- [Amazon KDP, “Content Guidelines”, section “Artificial intelligence (AI) content”](https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200672390)