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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.

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, 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 puts your answers on one side of KDP’s line or the other, and our guide to KDP’s 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.

In a real book

Cover of The Pricing Playbook by Jane Founder: a brass balance scale lit from the left on deep teal above white type, subtitle “How founders set a price they can defend”.
Title page. Page 1 of The Pricing Playbook.
Copyright. Page 2 of The Pricing Playbook.
Contents. Page 3 of The Pricing Playbook.
Introduction. Page 4 of The Pricing Playbook.
Introduction. Page 5 of The Pricing Playbook.
Why Guessing Fails. Page 6 of The Pricing Playbook.
Why Guessing Fails. Page 7 of The Pricing Playbook.
Why Guessing Fails. Page 8 of The Pricing Playbook.
Why Guessing Fails. Page 9 of The Pricing Playbook.
What You Are Actually Selling. Page 10 of The Pricing Playbook.
What You Are Actually Selling. Page 11 of The Pricing Playbook.
What You Are Actually Selling. Page 12 of The Pricing Playbook.
What You Are Actually Selling. Page 13 of The Pricing Playbook.
Interview Ten Customers. Page 14 of The Pricing Playbook.
Interview Ten Customers. Page 15 of The Pricing Playbook.
Interview Ten Customers. Page 16 of The Pricing Playbook.
Interview Ten Customers. Page 17 of The Pricing Playbook.
Interview Ten Customers. Page 18 of The Pricing Playbook.
Choose the Value Metric. Page 19 of The Pricing Playbook.
Choose the Value Metric. Page 20 of The Pricing Playbook.
Choose the Value Metric. Page 21 of The Pricing Playbook.
Choose the Value Metric. Page 22 of The Pricing Playbook.
Draft Three Tiers. Page 23 of The Pricing Playbook.
Draft Three Tiers. Page 24 of The Pricing Playbook.
Draft Three Tiers. Page 25 of The Pricing Playbook.
Draft Three Tiers. Page 26 of The Pricing Playbook.
Set the Numbers. Page 27 of The Pricing Playbook.
Set the Numbers. Page 28 of The Pricing Playbook.
Set the Numbers. Page 29 of The Pricing Playbook.
Set the Numbers. Page 30 of The Pricing Playbook.
Say the Price Out Loud. Page 31 of The Pricing Playbook.
Say the Price Out Loud. Page 32 of The Pricing Playbook.
Say the Price Out Loud. Page 33 of The Pricing Playbook.
Say the Price Out Loud. Page 34 of The Pricing Playbook.
Revisit Every Quarter. Page 35 of The Pricing Playbook.
Revisit Every Quarter. Page 36 of The Pricing Playbook.
Revisit Every Quarter. Page 37 of The Pricing Playbook.
Revisit Every Quarter. Page 38 of The Pricing Playbook.
Conclusion. Page 39 of The Pricing Playbook.
Conclusion. Page 40 of The Pricing Playbook.
Appendix: The Interview Script. Page 41 of The Pricing Playbook.
Appendix: The Interview Script. Page 42 of The Pricing Playbook.
Back cover of The Pricing Playbook: the description over the cover's artwork.
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The Pricing Playbook, how founders set a price they can defend: a nonfiction book of 9,862 words and 43 pages on 6 × 9 in, generated from one brief and exported unedited. It is a sample, not a customer's book. Download the PDF (381 KB) or the EPUB (107 KB).

Sources

Last reviewed 30 October 2026

  1. Amazon KDP, “Content Guidelines”, section “Artificial intelligence (AI) content”
  1. What is Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP)? Kindle Direct Publishing is Amazon's free self-publishing service for eBooks, paperbacks and hardcovers. What it asks for, and what Chapbook prepares for it.
  1. AI ebook writer for nonfiction: from one paragraph to EPUB An AI ebook writer for nonfiction: an outline you approve, chapters drafted in your voice from your own sources, then an EPUB 3, a typeset PDF, a Word file and a cover.

Questions people ask

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.

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