For authors
Your voice matters
gowrite exists to help you write your book — not to write it for you. Here's why that distinction matters, and what it means for your work.
Why human authorship matters
When a reader picks up your book, they're investing their time and money in your voice, your imagination, and your perspective on the world. That's the promise every author makes: this story came from me.
AI is a powerful tool for refining prose, catching structural issues, and helping you see your work from new angles. But the story — the characters you create, the choices they make, the themes you explore, the emotional truth at the heart of your writing — that has to come from you. No algorithm can replicate the lived experience, empathy, and creative instinct that makes a book worth reading.
This isn't about being anti-technology. It's about being honest with your readers. A book sold as your work should be your work.
What publishers and distributors require
The major platforms that gowrite publishes to have clear policies on AI-generated content, and they're enforcing them. Here's where they stand:
Amazon KDP
Requires authors to disclose when AI tools generate substantial portions of text or images. AI-assisted editing — where a human writes and the AI helps refine — does not require disclosure. Books that violate this policy may be removed and accounts suspended.
IngramSpark
Prohibits “books created using artificial intelligence or automated processes.” This targets mass-produced AI content, not human-authored books that use AI editing tools. IngramSpark has a zero-tolerance enforcement policy and will remove non-compliant titles.
Lulu
Reserves the right to limit, suspend, or terminate accounts that misuse AI or automation to flood the platform with content. Authors must ensure AI-generated content complies with intellectual property and consumer protection laws.
The direction of travel is clear: platforms are drawing a line between human authors who use AI as a tool and content farms that use AI as a factory. gowrite is designed for the former.
What's at stake
For you as an author: If your book is found to violate a distributor's AI policy, it may be rejected, delisted, or removed — and your account may be suspended. Beyond the practical consequences, your reputation as a writer is your most valuable asset. Readers, reviewers, and fellow authors will judge your work by its authenticity.
For the gowrite community: gowrite's ability to publish on behalf of all our authors depends on maintaining trust with distribution partners. If authors misuse the platform to publish substantially AI-generated content, it puts every gowrite author's access at risk. One bad actor can jeopardise the publishing relationships that benefit the entire community.
For readers: People who buy your book are paying for a human creative work. Selling AI-generated text as your own writing is, at best, misleading — and at worst, a breach of consumer trust. Readers deserve to know what they're buying.
What “AI-assisted” means in practice
The line between AI-assisted and AI-generated can feel blurry, so here are some concrete examples of how gowrite is designed to be used:
This is AI-assisted (you're the author)
- You write a chapter, then use Polish to tighten a clunky paragraph
- You use Structure check to see if your scene pacing works
- You use Tune to adjust the reading level of a passage you've written
- You run a full manuscript analysis to find pacing issues across your book
- You use Alternatives to brainstorm a better way to phrase your dialogue
- You import a manuscript you wrote in Word, then use gowrite's tools to refine it
This is not what gowrite is for
- Using an external AI tool to generate an entire manuscript, then importing it into gowrite
- Running every paragraph of your book through Tune without meaningful creative input
- Mass-producing books with minimal human involvement
- Importing content you didn't write and claiming authorship
The simple test: if someone asked “did you write this book?”, could you honestly say yes? If the answer is yes — you developed the story, you wrote the drafts, you made the creative decisions, and the AI helped you improve your craft — then you're using gowrite exactly as intended.
Our commitment
gowrite will never use your manuscripts to train AI models. Your words stay yours. We will always be transparent about what our AI features do and how they work. And we will always build gowrite to support your writing — not to replace it.
If you have questions about any of this, please get in touch. For the legal detail, see Section 4 (AI-assisted writing) and Section 6 (Acceptable use) of our Terms & Conditions.