AI usage note

1. What AI features do

The Workshop may use AI-assisted tools to support literary translation, audiobook narration, voice previews, text segmentation, formatting preparation, metadata drafting, production analysis, and other editorial workflows. These tools are designed to accelerate production, not replace editorial review, rights clearance, cultural judgment, or publication approval.

2. Human review is required

You are responsible for reviewing all AI-assisted outputs before publication, sale, distribution, submission, printing, narration release, licensing, or public display. Review should include accuracy, tone, style, cultural context, names, places, dates, quotations, citations, rights status, formatting, and marketplace requirements.

For translations, review should be performed by a qualified speaker, translator, editor, or reviewer appropriate for the language pair and publication purpose. For audiobooks, review should include pronunciation, pacing, chapter order, unwanted artifacts, missing sections, and any required disclosure rules.

3. Accuracy, similarity, and originality limits

AI systems may produce incorrect facts, mistranslations, omissions, additions, repeated phrasing, inconsistent terminology, or plausible but unsupported statements. Outputs may not be unique, and similar prompts or source passages may produce similar outputs for different users.

AI assistance does not guarantee that an output is copyrightable, non-infringing, distributor-ready, printer-ready, culturally appropriate, or compliant with a publisher’s rules. You must decide whether an output is suitable for your intended use.

4. Rights and permissions

Only upload or process material that you have the right to use with AI-assisted tools. This includes rights in source manuscripts, translations, public-domain editions, covers, illustrations, quotations, third-party excerpts, author names, narrator names, voices, and any client or estate materials.

If a contract, publisher policy, union rule, archive license, estate permission, or client agreement restricts AI use, you are responsible for honoring that restriction before using the Workshop.

5. Translation-specific responsibilities

• Confirm that the source text was complete and correctly structured before generating a translation.
• Review dialogue, idioms, archaic language, poetry, cultural references, regional variants, and foreign-language phrases.
• Check chapter titles, numbering, names, honorifics, typography, and recurring terminology for consistency.
• Do not rely on AI translation as a sole source of truth for legal, historical, medical, religious, technical, or scholarly claims.

6. Audiobook and voice responsibilities

• Use only text that you have the right to narrate, distribute, and monetize.
• Do not use voice output to impersonate a real person, deceive listeners, or imply endorsement without permission.
• Review generated audio for missing text, duplicated passages, mispronunciations, tonal mismatch, offensive artifacts, and technical defects.
• Follow any disclosure rules required by distributors, platforms, publishers, or applicable law for synthetic or AI-generated narration.

7. Print layout and EPUB responsibilities

AI-assisted or automated layout tools may help generate files, but you must inspect final PDFs and EPUBs before printing, uploading, or selling them. Check page size, margins, headings, table of contents, cover files, metadata, language codes, images, front matter, back matter, and distributor validation results.

8. Data sent to AI providers

To perform requested features, the Workshop may send relevant excerpts, chapters, profile settings, prompts, instructions, language choices, and job context to third-party AI or text-to-speech providers. Do not use AI-assisted features for content you are not allowed to transmit to outside processors.

We do not intentionally use private manuscripts to train a public Guijarro-owned model. Provider handling of prompts, outputs, abuse monitoring, retention, and security may be governed by provider-specific terms and policies.

9. Prohibited AI uses

You may not use Workshop AI features to create or distribute unlawful, deceptive, infringing, exploitative, harassing, hateful, or abusive material; to impersonate people without permission; to generate undisclosed synthetic endorsements; to evade platform rules; or to make high-impact decisions about a person in areas such as credit, education, employment, housing, insurance, immigration, legal, medical, or financial services.

10. Publication and disclosure

Some publishers, retailers, audiobook distributors, libraries, printers, and marketplaces require disclosure of AI-generated or AI-assisted text, translation, narration, covers, or metadata. You are responsible for checking and following those rules before publication.

11. Practical checklist before release

• Confirm rights to the source manuscript and any third-party content.
• Review translated text with a qualified language reviewer.
• Listen to generated audio and verify chapter order and pronunciation.
• Open and validate EPUB files before distribution.
• Inspect print PDFs at final trim size before sending to a printer.
• Save independent backups of final files and rights documentation.
• Make any required AI-use disclosures to platforms, clients, publishers, and readers.