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   "title": "Human Authored Certification",
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    "text": "Human Authored is the Authors Guild's certification of books whose text a human wrote: an author certifies a book under licence, may then carry the Guild's certification mark on it, and has the title listed under its own registration number in a public database.",
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    "text": "Its unit is one title with its registration number, its object the books published in the United States whose authors so certify; it is no test or detection of AI text, no copyright registration, open to non-members, and confined to the text of a book.",
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    "text": "The program opened in beta for Guild members in January 2025, when the first mark was released, and on 2 March 2026 the Guild announced its expansion to every author whose books are published in the United States, with publishers to buy certifications in bulk the following week.",
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    "text": "By the Guild's account the program was made because its members asked for a way to distinguish their work.",
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    "text": "Its CEO, Mary Rasenberger, gave Publishers Weekly a count of more than 3,000 authors and 5,000 titles certified since the launch; the announcement speaks of thousands of books, and the census record states no count.",
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    "text": "The entity's own pages state the definition in several forms, each centred on the text: on the program page the text of the book 'was written by a human and not generated by AI', minimal uses such as spelling and grammar checks or research excepted, and the database page adds brainstorming to the minimal uses.",
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    "text": "The FAQ, the usage guidelines and the announcement require the text to be 'fully authored by one or more human beings', a de minimis amount of text generated or modified with AI excepted, and the FAQ ties that threshold to the U.S. Copyright Office's guidance on what a copyright application must exclude.",
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    "text": "The census record keeps the program page's form as the record's limits: minimal uses excepted, books published in the United States under licence, and the text of the book.",
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    "text": "AI used for a table of contents, an index, a title, research, brainstorming or outlining does not disqualify a work, by the announcement and Publishers Weekly; the FAQ allows outlining and brainstorming 'only at a very high level', merely preparatory, with no AI-generated text in the work.",
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    "text": "Word-level grammar and spelling tools are acceptable and AI that rewrites full sentences is not; AI cover art, though outside the certified text, goes against the program's spirit, and so does AI used to develop characters and plot where no AI-generated text appears, although the definition 'looks at the text only'.",
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    "text": "Authors of books published in the United States may certify wherever they live; books published in the United Kingdom are referred to the Society of Authors, which partners on the program.",
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    "text": "One certification covers every format of a work, translations and audiobook narrations need their own, published and unpublished books are eligible, and only books are certified at present, articles and shorter works planned.",
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    "text": "Every author signs a licensing agreement for each title; non-members verify their identity through a third-party service, Veriff, and pay $10 a title, while members certify at no cost and the program page waives the identity verification requirement for them.",
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    "text": "The FAQ and Publishers Weekly give the waiver its ground: members are verified when they join the Guild, 'pre-verified' in Publishers Weekly's word, and every author's identity is verified before a book is registered.",
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    "text": "In the Guild's letter printed by Jane Friedman the fee reads 'We currently are charging members $10', while the same letter applies the verification cost, about $2 a person, to non-members only.",
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    "text": "The verification exists, by the FAQ, so that the persons who certify that they are the authors 'are in fact who they say they are', and the announcement has the CEO speak of writers taking 'control of their professional identity'.",
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    "text": "What the certificate keeps is the author's own certification that a human wrote the text; the census record finds that the saved page does not say whether a certification may carry a pen name, and that a certified text is never shown to have been written without AI.",
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    "text": "On the archive's account of authorship under civil names, the metadata that lets a work be attributed to human authorship attaches to legal names, and the classifier of legitimate authorship reads legal-name attribution as its first signal.",
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    "text": "The archive distinguishes a pseudonym, whose function is traceable to the civil identity behind it, from a heteronym, whose function is attributable through the civil bearer without being reducible to that bearer, who stays accountable for custody, legal responsibility, rights and adjudication.",
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    "text": "On the census's reading the certificate binds the non-member's claim to an identity check, and the saved page leaves open whether it carries the name the author chose.",
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    "text": "By the licence the author represents and warrants that the work is Human Authored; a licensee who uses the mark on AI-generated text is in breach of the licence and liable for trademark infringement and, by the FAQ potentially and by the Guild's letter likely, for consumer fraud.",
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    "text": "The Guild states that it knows no truly reliable way to test a work for AI-generated material: the program is self-certification with enforcement, vets no manuscript before certifying, and may adopt detection software if a reliable one is found.",
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    "text": "Its stated measures against misuse are identity verification, a limit of ten new titles a year without permission, a registration number for each title, the public database and the fee.",
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    "text": "The census record accordingly holds the certificate to be no test of AI text and constitutes its function as self-certification under licence, covering the text.",
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    "text": "Jane Friedman, a Guild member with a marketing partnership with it, found certification on the honor system problematic because it takes the author's word and analyses no manuscript, and still held its market value negligible.",
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    "text": "The Guild answered that self-certification is standard in publishing and in legal agreements, that most authors are honest and concerned about liability, and that the program is not expected to break even.",
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    "text": "Friedman reported a hunch, from small presses' use of a detector, that works with some AI-generated or AI-assisted text approach 25 to 50 percent of nonfiction, and read the demand for certification as a sign of anti-AI conviction or of insecurity in the market.",
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    "n": 32,
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    "text": "Others argued that the labelling runs backward, and one author asked whether books without the mark would be taken as created by AI; the Guild agrees that books with significant AI-generated content should be labelled, holds that consumers have a right to know, and its CEO calls the certification the next best solution absent a ruling that forces such labels.",
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    "text": "The database page answers the bookstore question for its own records: a lack of results means only that a work has not been registered as Human Authored, 'not that it is generated by AI'.",
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    "text": "Friedman's further concern, false accusations of AI use between authors, already a common insult, is the case the archive names the existence tax: before anyone talks about the work, its maker has to prove again that it exists, and exists as what it is.",
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    "text": "The archive finds the tax falling on the independent, the new, the unaccredited, the heteronymous and the small, and its remedy for a maker is a documentary layer dated, deposited and linked, against which an answer can be checked.",
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    "text": "An adequate answer, on its account, names the object at its own level, a person or a pen name among them, and shows its evidence; it holds a heteronym declared where a Sybil attack hides one actor behind many, its registry published with the orthonym, the roles and the dates.",
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    "text": "The mark is the words Human Authored in a circle around a human silhouette, issued in an updated form in March 2026; an author or publisher registers each work and agrees to the licence before using it.",
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    "text": "It may go on the front or back cover, typically a bottom corner of the back, on the copyright page with the registration number, which not every use need display, and in listings and marketing for the registered title, between a quarter of an inch and an inch across; violating the usage guidelines violates the licence.",
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    "text": "Its trademark status is stated two ways: the FAQ calls it a registered certification mark, while the announcement, Friedman and the Guild's own letter give a pending application with the US Patent and Trademark Office.",
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    "n": 42,
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    "text": "Publishers Weekly gives its tagline as 'Certifying Human Creativity in an AI World'; the program page's line is 'Distinguish human creativity in an increasingly AI world'.",
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    "text": "The public database lists each certified title, searchable by title, author or registration number, the number usually printed on the copyright page, so that anyone can check a use of the mark and report misuse; it answers whether a named book is certified, and the census record ran no lookup in it.",
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    "text": "Beside it stand other certifications of human authorship: Created by Humans, from June 2024, which later partnered with the Guild and took its CEO as an adviser; Books by People in the United Kingdom, from 2025; the Society of Authors' scheme; and services such as Verify My Writing, which scores a manuscript for human content with a detector.",
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    "text": "Wikipedia has no article on the program: 'Human Authored' redirects to a section of the article on the Authors Guild, which gives the program page's definition, the fee as of 2026 and the open database, and cites Kit Eaton's comparison, in Inc. in October 2024, with food labelled 'organic'.",
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     "F82"
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    "text": "The archive's packet *Provenance Is What Authorship Must Endure* grants the certification a legitimate function, protecting readers from deceptive synthetic substitution and keeping a market signal for AI-free literary labour, and calls the label 'a market-category signal, not a complete theory of authorship'.",
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    "n": 47,
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    "text": "It finds in the certification a binary frame, AI-assisted work falling outside the human-authored category, and answers: 'Authorship is not a purity state. It is an accountability structure.'",
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    "text": "Its invariant places authorship in the accountable relation between writer, process and text, and its fourth position admits AI-mediated writing as authorship where provenance preserves the writer's directing and responsibility-bearing role, refusing the purism on which any generative AI participation destroys authorship.",
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    "text": "The packet opposes only the implication that AI-mediated authorship is impossible, holds that the two positions can coexist, and closes that the label matters, that the law is right to reject machine authorship, and that none of it is enough.",
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    "text": "It holds detection forensic and authorship moral and epistemic, and gives provenance the work of distinguishing authorship from slop; the Guild, for its part, leaves detection to software it has not found.",
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    "n": 51,
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    "text": "The census reads the certificate as setting authorship's boundary at the human writing of a text and admitting machine participation only as minimal uses, so that where machine participation is constitutive of a work its definition leaves no certifiable place.",
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    "n": 52,
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    "text": "The archive's own corpus declares the machine participation that boundary turns on: the packet counts its deposits as all produced through AI-mediated workflows, with declared provenance, and all authored, and a paper of the archive declares itself written with AI through the heteronymous voices that sign it.",
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    "text": "The archive argues that under a human-only policy enforced by a classifier the certified absence of machine mediation becomes the most machine-determined property of the text, and that a classifier introduced after an act gains standing over it without new evidence about the act; it disclaims any claim that a venue may not reserve space for human-composed work, and the Guild's program enforces by licence while its FAQ contemplates detection software.",
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    "n": 54,
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    "text": "On the archive's account of civil names, the credentialed author need declare no substrate, the uncredentialed author who declares one is anomalous, and a function legible without civil-identity reduction looks to the regime like fraud.",
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    "n": 55,
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    "text": "The heteronymy paper extends heteronymic organization to named machine-witness functions with their substrate and editorial chain declared, holds the operation not species-restricted, and leaves outside heteronymy machine assistance not organized as a declared witness role.",
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    "text": "Asked for the certification on 1 November 2026, Google's AI Overview gave, by the Capture Registry's reading, what it certifies, allows and excludes, its costs, the mark and the database, from five cards, three of them the Guild's.",
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    "quote": "When an author registers to certify their book, they must sign an agreement promising, representing, and warranting that the work is Human Authored (as defined here and in the license agreement). … if someone executes a license and uses the mark for a work for which some or all of the text was generated by AI, it is a breach of the license, as well as infringement, and potentially fraudulent representation to the consumer.",
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    "quote": "We also prevent fraudulent certification by requiring all users to sign a license agreement for each title registered that makes the user represent and warrant that the title was “Human Authored”—meaning the text of the work itself (excluding the table of contents or index) was written by one or more humans (excepting de minimis use for spell check and editing).",
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    "kind": "field",
    "quote": "if a licensee-author registers a book that the author knows contains AI generated text, they will be liable for breach of contract, trademark infringement, and likely consumer fraud under various laws.",
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    "quote": "Here is the full response from Mary Rasenberger at the Authors Guild. We also prevent fraudulent certification by requiring all users to sign a license agreemen...",
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    "quote": "Rasenberger acknowledged that the Human Authored program does not currently vet manuscripts themselves for AI content prior to issuing certification and noted that no reliable detection method currently exists.",
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    "quote": "such as mandatory identity verification, limits on the number of new titles that can be registered in a year (exceptions will be made with express permission), the issuance of a unique registration number for each title, and a fee for use by non-members",
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    "quote": "(Disclosure: I am a member of the Authors Guild and have a marketing partnership with them for my industry newsletter, The Bottom Line.)",
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    "quote": "Some people have expressed concern that a self-certifying system is just based on the honor system and not trustable. But self-certification is a standard practice in the publishing industry and in formal legal agreements more broadly.",
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    "quote": "I know you find the notion of “self-certification” meaningless because people will not be honest. But we do not agree. First, in our experience, most authors are honest and also are concerned about liability.",
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    "quote": "We do not expect to break even from this project, much less earn money from it.",
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    "kind": "field",
    "quote": "my hunch is that the number of works with some percentage of AI-generated or AI-assisted text within their pages is approaching 25 to 50 percent for nonfiction in particular and may soon be the majority.",
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    "kind": "field",
    "quote": "Personally, I believe this desire for certification says more about people who desire to broadcast a strong anti-AI stance or who don’t feel secure in the current market.",
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    "quote": "Meanwhile, other people have argued that the Authors Guild has this notification system backward—that it’s AI-created work that should be labeled as such. One author wrote, “What if I step into a bookstore and I see some books with the Authors Guild’s Human Authored Certification Mark on them; will that mean that all those other books that don’t have the mark mean they were created by AI?",
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    "kind": "field",
    "quote": "In the absence of a ruling of some kind that would force AI-generated books to be labeled as such, this is the next best solution.",
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    "quote": "We believe that book consumers have the right to know whether a book they are purchasing or borrowing from a library was written by a human or was generated using AI.",
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    "quote": "This page allows you to verify a Human Authored certification. You may search for a title, author, or Human Authored registration number (typically located on a book’s copyright page).",
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    "quote": "I also have concerns about false accusations by authors against other authors they don’t like (it’s already a well-worn insult on social media to accuse writers, or anyone, of using AI)",
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  "note": "The knowledge object (KO): the entry as public knowledge, each sentence sourced by the claims it lists. The compression, the field-only arm, the transcript, the delta and the kernel are in the row (links.row), which is the authority."
 },
 "source": "operator, 2026-11-01: 'so lets get the lists, build the /non articles, then revise and finish the individual pages'; with the 23 captures: 'now we seat the captures, write the /nons - and the/nons are written as against the wikipedia pages where they exist, too, correct? - then come back and flesh out the single pages'",
 "stage": "composed 2026-11-01 under EA-NEGONT-02 v0.10, #1726, from the leesharks.com apparatus authorship census (CENSUS authors-guild-human-authored); equal case, ρ = extends. Draft, not frozen; ledgers unaudited, one extractor; checked by the session.",
 "date": "2026-11-01",
 "status": {
  "procedure": "EA-NEGONT-02 v0.10 (#1726): equal case, ρ = extends, read from the authorship census record, the capture record and the archive's deposits on the certification and its kind (#729, #940, #1722, #1540) at their loci; two pools (§3.1(a)); attribution beneath (§4.5); natural sentences under subheadings (§4.12); article first (§4.13)",
  "ledger": "unaudited (§3.8: one extractor per ledger); field quotes 85/85 and archive quotes 59/59 verified by script against saved texts, the registry and the census",
  "frozen": false,
  "breaches": []
 },
 "addresses": [
  {
   "address": "Authors Guild Human Authored Certification",
   "address_url": "https://www.alexanarch.org/addresses/authors-guild-human-authored-certification/",
   "register": []
  }
 ],
 "counts": {
  "ko_sentences": 59,
  "p_words": 303,
  "field_claims": 85,
  "archive_claims": 59,
  "ko_field_claims_cited": 85,
  "ko_archive_claims_cited": 59,
  "admitted_deposits": 4,
  "register_addresses": 0,
  "traversal": {
   "D_sentences": 19,
   "D_deposits": 3,
   "R_sentences": 0,
   "R_deposits": 0,
   "O_direct": 8,
   "O_class": 15,
   "O_deposits": 5,
   "H_candidates": 96
  }
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://www.alexanarch.org/non/authors-guild-human-authored/",
  "table_of_contents": "https://www.alexanarch.org/non/index.json",
  "register": "https://www.alexanarch.org/datasets/negative-of-the-negative/v2/register.json",
  "row": "https://www.alexanarch.org/datasets/negative-of-the-negative/v2/rows/authors-guild-human-authored.json",
  "archive_ledger": "https://www.alexanarch.org/datasets/negative-of-the-negative/v2/ledgers/authors-guild-human-authored/ledger-archive.json",
  "field_ledger": "https://www.alexanarch.org/datasets/negative-of-the-negative/v2/ledgers/authors-guild-human-authored/field.json",
  "selection": "https://www.alexanarch.org/datasets/negative-of-the-negative/v2/traversal/authors-guild-human-authored/",
  "traversal": "https://www.alexanarch.org/datasets/negative-of-the-negative/v2/traversal/authors-guild-human-authored/",
  "traversal_summary": "https://www.alexanarch.org/datasets/negative-of-the-negative/v2/traversal/authors-guild-human-authored/summary.json",
  "reading": "https://www.alexanarch.org/datasets/negative-of-the-negative/v2/traversal/authors-guild-human-authored/reading.json",
  "configuration": "https://www.alexanarch.org/datasets/negative-of-the-negative/v2/panel/configs/authors-guild-human-authored.json",
  "address_page": "https://www.alexanarch.org/addresses/authors-guild-human-authored-certification/",
  "dataset": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/leesharks/negative-of-the-negative"
 },
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 "record_url": "https://www.alexanarch.org/non/authors-guild-human-authored/",
 "json_url": "https://www.alexanarch.org/non/authors-guild-human-authored/entity.json",
 "spec": "https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/1726/",
 "creator": "Lee Sharks",
 "orcid": "0009-0000-1599-0703",
 "license": "CC BY 4.0"
}