KDP draws a line between generated and assisted content.
Amazon KDP’s current content guidelines require publishers to inform KDP about AI-generated text, images, or translations when publishing or republishing. The same guidelines say disclosure is not required for AI-assisted content—such as using an AI tool to brainstorm or refine material that the creator ultimately produced.
KDP also places responsibility on the publisher to comply with its other content rules and applicable intellectual-property rights. This is a platform policy: it controls participation in KDP. It is not a universal definition of authorship, a detector result, or an automatic ethical clearance certificate.
Copyright asks a different question.
The U.S. Copyright Office’s guidance focuses on human authorship and the copyrightability of human contributions in works containing generated material. A work can therefore involve separate questions: Did it comply with a retailer’s disclosure rule? Which portions, if any, qualify for copyright protection? Were rights respected? Was a customer misled? Was labor credited and paid fairly?
Collapsing all of those into “AI bad” is emotionally efficient and analytically useless. Read the rule that actually governs the situation, identify the conduct at issue, and bring evidence. Yes, this is more work than pointing at a publication date. We are all devastated.