What KDP asks you to disclose about AI-generated content

If you publish through Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, KDP asks a question about artificial intelligence when you publish a new book or edit and republish an existing one. The answer depends on how AI was involved, and KDP draws the line in a specific place. We read KDP's content guidelines on 11 November 2026; this is our plain-language summary, with a link to the original at the end.

Two kinds of AI use

AI-generated

KDP's term "AI-generated" covers content that an AI-based tool created: text, images, translations. Images include both the cover and the interior artwork. The important detail is that it stays AI-generated even if you then edited it heavily. Touching up an AI picture does not change which side of the line it is on.

AI-assisted

"AI-assisted" means you created the content yourself and used AI to improve it: editing, refining, checking for errors, or brainstorming ideas. KDP says AI-assisted content does not need to be disclosed. Asking a chatbot for twenty theme ideas and then drawing the pages yourself would usually fall here.

What this means for a coloring book

In a coloring book the pictures are the content. If an AI image tool drew them, the book contains AI-generated images, and KDP asks you to disclose that. The same applies to a cover made with an AI image tool.

Our AI disclosure checker turns KDP's rule into four yes/no questions. For a book where only the images came from AI, it answers: "KDP asks you to disclose AI-generated images. This applies even if you edited it afterwards."

If instead you drew everything yourself and only used AI to tidy up the wording of your introduction page, the checker says: "Based on your answers this is AI-assisted work (you created it and AI only helped edit, refine, check or brainstorm). KDP says that does not need to be disclosed."

Mixed books

Plenty of books mix the two. You might write the title page and the parent note yourself and use AI for the artwork. The checker treats each kind of content separately: AI-generated images still need disclosing even if every word was your own. Using AI to edit your own writing does not cancel the disclosure for the images.

Short text counts as text. If an AI tool wrote the wording on your title page, a note for parents or the back cover and you kept it, that is AI-generated text by KDP's definition, even if it is only a few lines. If you wrote those lines yourself and only asked AI to polish them, they are AI-assisted.

Disclosure is not the only responsibility

KDP is clear that you remain responsible for everything in the book, whether a person or a tool made it. In practice, that means:

• No characters, logos or artwork that belong to someone else. Ask for original characters only. Kids Books Maker blocks a list of well-known character names for this reason, but no list catches everything.
• No text that copies another book.
• A careful look at every page for mistakes an image tool can make, such as extra limbs, merged objects or stray letters.
• Following KDP's wider content guidelines, which apply to every book regardless of how it was made.

A simple routine

1. Keep a short note for each book of which parts came from AI tools and which you made yourself.
2. Run the four questions in the checker, or read KDP's page directly.
3. Answer the AI question honestly when you upload or republish.
4. Review every page yourself before publishing. Our human review checklist is a good place to start.

Kids Books Maker uses AI to draw every picture in a book, and to write the words of a storybook, so books made with it contain AI-generated images and, for storybooks, AI-generated text unless you rewrite it yourself. We think it is better to say that plainly. KDP may change its rules, and other marketplaces have their own, so check the current wording wherever you publish.