The standard
The Making Label
Food comes with a nutrition label. A book made with AI should come with a making label. Ours answers the questions a reader would ask before buying.
What the label says
- Seal: one of four metals, one for each step, from a person writing with AI's help (gold) to AI drafting nearly everything (copper).
- Certificate: the seal's number, the date it was issued, and who checked it.
- The human part: what the person did. The idea, the outline, the voice, the choices, the edits, the lived experience.
- The AI's part: what the AI did. Drafting, research, editing, translation, illustration.
- Tools: which AI was used.
- Checked: how the book was read and checked before it went on sale.
- Edition: which version you are reading, and when it was made.
Gold Seal
Human-written · AI-assisted
A person wrote the words. AI helped research, edit or check.
Silver Seal
Co-written
A person and an AI each drafted large parts of the book.
Bronze Seal
AI-drafted · human-directed
AI drafted most of the words. A person set the idea, directed every part, and chose and edited it.
Copper Seal
AI-made · human-curated
AI drafted nearly everything. A person chose it, checked it and stands behind it.
The Making Seal
Every book carries its step as a seal: a chip in gold, silver, bronze or copper. The metal follows the human hand. Gold is the most human: a person wrote the words. Copper, the metal that carries the current, is the most AI: the AI drafted nearly everything, and a person chose it and stands behind it.
The chip is printed on the front cover. Inside the book, it is issued as a numbered Certificate of Making. The certificate carries the seal, who did what, how sure the check is, who checked it, the edition, and the edition's fingerprint. Its code opens the certificate in the public register, where anyone can verify it or challenge it.
AIBOOKS issues these seals itself. They are the store's own seals, not an independent certification. When AIBOOKS publishes the book too, the certificate says so. The rules are in the Making Standard. No metal is a grade of quality. If a seal or a label is wrong, your money comes back.
How the four steps are decided
The step reflects how much of the final text the AI drafted, as the author states it and signs it.
- Gold · Human-written · AI-assisted. The person wrote the words. AI helped research, edit or check.
- Silver · Co-written. The person and the AI each drafted large parts of the book.
- Bronze · AI-drafted · human-directed. The AI drafted most of the words. The person set the idea, directed every part, chose and arranged it, and edited it.
- Copper · AI-made · human-curated. The AI drafted nearly everything. The person chose it, checked it and stands behind it.
- The human part
- Carter Luense commissioned the shelf and chose its genre: crime thrillers about murder and serial killers, all new and original.
- The AI's part
- Claude invented the stories, the characters and the cases, and wrote every word.
- Tools
- Claude, by Anthropic
- Checked
- Written by Claude from a brief that set only the genre. No person edited the story. A work of fiction: no real person, case or place is meant. The publisher read this label against the making record.
- Edition
- 1.0 · written and pressed 26 October 2026
- Assurance
- Verified · checked against the making record by Carter Luense, Publisher
- Certificate
- Nº 0029-9 · issued 26 October 2026 by AIBOOKS
Issued by AIBOOKS for a book published by Lund Studio LLC, the company AIBOOKS belongs to. This is the store's own seal, not an independent certification. Verify certificate Nº 0029-9 · The standard
A real label, from A Bad Light for Dying
Who fills it in
The author fills in the label and signs that it is true. Before a book goes on the shelf, a person at AIBOOKS reads it and checks the label against the book. If you think a label is wrong, write to us. We will correct it, or take the book down.
Why a label
Readers have a right to know how a book was made. Authors deserve credit for the real human work in an AI-made book: the idea, the direction, the taste, the hours of choosing and fixing. The label shows both, so nobody has to guess and nobody has to hide.