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Policies

Use of AI In Fiction

AI-Generated Content

Purely AI-generated content without sufficient human input is not copyrightable per the guidance of the United States Copyright Office.

AI-generated work cannot benefit from the protections offered by Intellectual Property Law as human authorship is a fundamental requirement.

Authors who use AI may be in breach of standard publishing contract terms that require them to wholly own any rights they assign or license. Some major publishing companies are now including a clause in their contracts asking authors to warrant they have not used AI to generate content. The Authors Guild advises that if you use text generated by AI in your manuscript, you should disclose it to your publisher. Under most publishing contracts, authors represent and warrant that the work submitted will be original to them. The inclusion of more than de minimus AI-generated text in the final manuscript will violate this warranty, as the text is not considered “original” to the author. Similarly, an entirely AI-generated plotline or wholesale adoption of AI-generated characters may violate this term of the contract

Please note, per our terms and conditions, that AI-generated content is not considered suitable for submission to enter the traditional publishing process and if we believe your content has been created using AI we may decline to submit your manuscript to our literary agency partners. It is the responsibility of a literary agent, before offering representation, that they satisfy themselves the author client meets the requirements of their terms of contract.

We Decline to Use AI Generative Tools.

You should take all steps to defend your copyright and you may be assured we take steps to protect your data and information too. We endeavor to protect any data you share with us, and we do not store your data using AI generative tools and have opted out of such services with suppliers such as Zoom for example per their policy here.

The Authors Guild Advice

We refer writers to the advice given by the Authors Guild here.

The Society of Authors Advice

We refer all writers to the advice given by the Society of Authors here.

The Creators Right Alliance

We stand with their position on fairness of use of AI as articulated here, specifically: Creators should be protected and recognized for the copyright and moral rights that exist in their work. Copyright is given to works of human originality and skill and labour. AI-generated works with no human input should not attract copyright protection. There should be no erosion of copyright protections for individuals, businesses and those who are using AI tools to assist with the creation of their own original work.

Our advice

When you join us at The Novelry, you agree to our Terms and Conditions. We take the value of your work seriously and we ask every member to agree to protect the copyright of each others’ work.

  • Do not share any content or data from any of the pages of The Novelry outside of our websites
  • Be careful how you share your content to other websites or online
  • Always read the AI policies of any software you use carefully
  • Do not use AI to generate content
  • Do not upload your content to platforms that use AI and store your content
  • Always be transparent and declare any use of AI


AI is open-source data, and it works by harvesting data shared publicly on the internet. We advise you do not post your work into AI-based platforms like ChatGPT so that it becomes available to all. (For example; please do not post your entire manuscript into open source to get a synopsis!)

We follow the Creators Rights Alliance advice and ask you not to use AI to generate written content if you are aiming to develop your skills as an author, and establish your brand and copyright.

As for developing your content, no AI-generated content can match the ingenuity, moral impulses and judgment or emotional depth of human-generated content.

Further, as creative artists, we may not plagiarize. We don’t publish or share written material pretending it is our own work when it is not. We don’t pass off the work of others as our own; that’s plagiarism (a theft of a kind). Just as helping ourselves to the work of others and passing it off as our own is false representation, so using a machine to create a combination of words, whether as a sentence, paragraph or more of text, is legally indefensible. You cannot reasonably claim it as your work.

Happily, in almost every jurisdiction in the world, the minute you put something into a document, you establish copyright. Guard it and defend it. Your work is worth the world to you. Write happy and stay safe.