Below are templates that you can use to prohibit or guide AI use in your store. These sample policies and templates are designed to help you start on your own store’s policies. Don’t forget to customize them to suit your store’s voice, mission, and community!

Example: Beyonders Studio has a great example of their specific policy in the company’s voice. Their approach could be used for any of these perspectives. 

 

No AI for Creativity, Operations, Marketing, Anything

At ____________________________ (Your store name here),

we believe ______________________________________________________.

(Here you may talk about your store’s values, why you think human creation and copyright is paramount, and/or other concerns you have about AI.)

For this reason:

  • Our store is run entirely by humans. We will not knowingly use AI in any of our operations.
  • Human beings create our content, conduct our marketing, curate our book inventory, and make book recommendations. 
  • We will only knowingly carry and promote books written, designed, or illustrated by humans. As AI-creation is not always transparent, please notify us if you believe a book created by AI has accidentally made it to our shelves so we can remove it.
  • (Change or add as needed for your store)

________________________________ (Your store name here) does not consent to any use of the content on this website towards training any AI models.

This policy was last updated _____________ and will be reviewed ____________.

(Here you would put when your policy was last updated and how often you will update it — quarterly, annually, etc.)

 

Hybrid: AI for Limited Operations, but Never for Creativity

At ____________________________ (Your store name here),

we believe ______________________________________________________.  

(Here you may talk about your store’s values, why you think human creation and copyright is paramount, and/or other concerns you have about AI.)

For these reasons:

  • We will only knowingly carry and promote books written, designed, or illustrated by humans. As AI-creation is not always transparent, please notify us if you believe a book created by AI has accidentally made it to our shelves so we can remove it.
  • (Change or add as needed for your store)

We also believe  ____________________________________________________.

(Here you may talk about how AI has been integrated into many of the products and services you depend on as a business, how AI potentially allows for a level playing field, and/or other thoughts.)

Therefore we may use AI in our operations, intentionally or unknowingly for the purposes of:

  • Reviewing publisher book catalogs
  • Analyzing sales and inventory data
  • Reviewing and analyzing financials
  • Marketing analytics and optimization
  • Detecting fraud
  • (Change or add what applies to your store)

In these cases, the tools will never be used to replace human creative work, and we will always strive to be transparent about its usage.

________________________________ (Your store name here) does not consent to any use of the content on this website towards training any AI models.

This policy was last updated _____________ and will be reviewed ____________.

(Here you would put when your policy was last updated and how often you will update it — quarterly, annually, etc.)

 

Artificial Intelligence 

At ____________________________ (Your store name here),

we believe ______________________________________________________.  

(Here you may talk about how AI has been integrated into many of the products and services you depend on as a business, how AI potentially allows for a level playing field, your thoughts about AI as a tool for creators, and/or other thoughts.)

Therefore we may use AI in the following ways: 

  • Stocking books created with AI assistance
  • Reviewing publisher book catalogs
  • Analyzing sales and inventory data
  • Managing inventory
  • Reviewing and analyzing financials
  • Marketing analytics and optimization
  • Order processing
  • Detecting fraud
  • (Change or add what applies to your store)

________________________________ (Your store name here) does not consent to any use of the content on this website towards training any AI models.

This policy was last updated _____________ and will be reviewed ____________.

(Here you would put when your policy was last updated and how often you will update it — quarterly, annually, etc.)