The Guild of the authors launched A certification system, “Human Author”, intended to provide authors and publishers with a means of distinguishing their work on a “market increasingly saturated by AI”. The system will provide an official mark on the books recorded by its author or its publisher via a public database, indicating whether the text of a book has been written by a human.
“The books generated by the AI flood the online markets and look more and more like, and sometimes even read like automated books,” the guild said in a statement. “Readers may not know if a book they meet is generated by AI or the author by a human. The guild of the authors thinks that readers have the right to know if AI or a human wrote a text, and that writers should be able to distinguish their work on markets increasingly saturated by AI.”
The logo and the name of humanity will be recorded with the US Bureau of Patents and Brands. The use of the brand is limited to books and other works “written by a human and not generated by AI, with the exception of minimum and trivial uses, such as AI applications which check spelling and grammar or for brainstorming or research,” said the guild. Certification is currently only available for members of guild authors and for books written by a single author.
The certification process includes four steps:
- Connect to the human authoritarian portal
- Submit the details of the book and check the information
- Sign the license contract, accepting to use the brand only as authorized
- Receive a unique and numbered certification mark for use on books of books, thorns or promotional documents
“The initiative among humanity does not concern the rejection of technology – it is a question of creating transparency, of recognizing the desire of the reader of human connection and of celebrating human elements only human,” said Mary Rasenberger, CEO of the Guild of the authors, in a press release. “The authors can always be qualified if they use AI as a tool for spell verification or research, but certification evokes that the literary expression itself, with the unique human voice that each author brings to their writing, emanated from the human intellect. In a market increasingly filled with content generated by AI, readers deserve to know if they experience authentic human creativity. ”
A version of this article appeared in the number 03/02/2025 of Publishers Weekly Under the title:
