AI & authorship.

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25Publishing guide
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AI & authorship

Keep a Human Decision Trace in AI-Assisted Revision

A practical revision log that records what a tool was asked to do, what the writer accepted, and where the final prose came from.

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32News
Subject: 2 Mar 2026

AI & authorship

Human Authored expands beyond Guild membership.

The Authors Guild opened its certification program to authors whose books are published in the United States. The useful distinction is between a recorded declaration of origin and a judgment of literary quality.

2 sources · Source-based entry

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33News
Subject: 29 Jan 2025

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The Copyright Office’s distinction: expression, not a prompt count.

The U.S. Copyright Office’s January 2025 report addresses AI output and human authorship. Its central distinction is useful to writers, but it does not turn a production checklist into a legal ruling.

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34News
Subject: 18 Mar 2026

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The UK copyright report leaves the next step open.

The government’s March 2026 report moved away from its previously preferred broad exception with opt-out. Its stated evidence gaps deserve to remain visible in publishing coverage.

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36Opinion
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Opinion: let a label answer its own question.

Authorship declarations can clarify origin. They cannot take over the work of a reviewer, a fact-checker or a reader. Keeping those judgments separate gives each a more useful job.

2 sources · Editorial opinion

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62Research desk
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Before a manuscript enters an AI tool

A per-project method for deciding what a tool generated, what may be shared with it, and what a publisher or retailer needs to know.

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70Research note
Subject: 2025

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A detector score cannot replace an editorial inquiry.

A 2025 paper tests AI-text detectors outside familiar conditions. Its findings support a careful distinction between a statistical classification and evidence about how a particular manuscript was made.

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71Research note
Subject: 12 Jul 2024

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Better-rated stories, a narrower collective shelf.

Doshi and Hauser’s experiment separates individual evaluations from diversity across stories. That distinction is more useful than a general claim that AI makes writers either creative or uncreative.

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76Reading list
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Four primary readings for four AI questions.

Retailer disclosure, copyrightability, certification and evidence about detection belong on different shelves. This short reference route helps a writer consult the right source before answering.

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