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Last updated: May 30, 2026
This policy covers every AuthorWings service: ghostwriting, editing, cover design, formatting, illustration, publishing setup, marketing, and coaching. It describes where we use AI tools, where we do not, and how your manuscript data is handled.
Our position
A human writes your manuscript. A human edits it. A human designs your cover. AI tools assist with mechanical tasks only. No language model drafts your chapters, generates your content, or creates your artwork.
The Authors Guild, the nation’s oldest and largest professional organization for writers, has introduced model contract clauses that cap AI-generated text at 5% and require disclosure of any AI-generated material. Our standard is stricter: we cap AI-generated content at zero.
Where AI tools are used
We use AI-assisted tools for two mechanical tasks. Both are supervised by a person, and neither produces creative content.
Research. When your book references a date, a statistic, or a spelling, a research tool pulls it faster than a manual search. A person confirms it against a primary source before it enters your manuscript. The tool gathers. The writer decides what belongs.
Grammar and spelling. Every manuscript gets a mechanical pass for typos, doubled words, and punctuation errors. A human editor reviews every flag and decides which to accept. Grammar bends for voice, dialect, and deliberate effect. Your editor understands your narrator’s choices and protects them.
Where AI tools are never used
Manuscript drafting. No AI tool writes, rewrites, or generates sentences for your book. Your ghostwriter or editor produces every line.
Editorial and creative judgment. Structure, pacing, voice, and revision direction come from a person who has read your full manuscript and understands what you are building.
Cover design and illustration. Your cover art and interior illustrations are created by a human designer. We do not use AI image generators (Midjourney, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, or similar tools) to produce artwork for your book. Standard design software such as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator includes built-in AI-powered features for tasks like background removal, image scaling, and color correction. These are production tools within the software, not image generators, and they do not create original artwork.
Book formatting. Layout and typesetting are handled by a person using publishing software. The finished file reflects your style choices, applied by hand.
These restrictions apply across all tiers and all services.
Your manuscript data
Research queries, not your pages. When a fact needs checking, the researcher types the question. Your unpublished chapters, characters, and plot are never entered into any lookup tool.
Controlled tools, not public chatbots. Grammar passes run through business-grade tools selected for confidentiality, not through free consumer chatbots that store what you paste.
Not used for training. Your manuscript is not used to train any AI model.
Limited access. Your files are accessible only to the writer, editor, and staff assigned to your project.
When the work is done, you hold full ownership of the final files and full rights to your work. For complete details on data storage and protection, read our privacy policy.
Publishing platform requirements
Amazon KDP requires authors to disclose AI-generated content, defined as text, images, or translations produced by an AI tool, per their content guidelines. AI-assisted work (grammar checks, research lookups, brainstorming) does not require disclosure. Amazon has increased enforcement significantly in 2025 and 2026, removing titles and suspending accounts for undisclosed AI-generated content.
Because a person writes your manuscript, designs your cover, and produces your illustrations, your book contains no AI-generated content to declare.
Questions
How do I know a person designed my cover? The same way. You see concepts, give feedback, and approve the final design. Your designer explains their choices because they made them.
I drafted part of my manuscript with ChatGPT. Can you still work with me? Yes. A writer reads what you have, keeps what works, and rebuilds the rest in your voice. The finished book is human-written. If the final manuscript contains no AI-generated text, there is nothing to disclose to publishing platforms.
Will a grammar check get my book flagged as AI-written? AI detectors are unreliable and have flagged fully human writing, so no company can promise zero false positives from third-party tools. What matters is what your book actually is: human-written. A grammar check is AI-assisted, not AI-generated, and no platform requires you to disclose it.
Do you use AI for cover design or illustrations? No. Your cover and illustrations are created by a human designer. Design software like Photoshop includes built-in AI features for production tasks (background removal, scaling), but the artwork itself, the concept, composition, typography, and illustration, is human work.
Where is the line between AI-generated and AI-assisted? If a tool created the content (the sentence, the image, the translation), it is AI-generated. If a person created it and a tool checked spelling or pulled a fact, it is AI-assisted. We use AI-assisted tools only. This distinction is the same one used by Amazon KDP, the Authors Guild, and major publishers.