What a book says about how it was made
A colophon is the note that states how a book was produced — press, type, paper, run. This is a public record of one further line: what part, if any, artificial intelligence played in making it.
The registry takes no position on which answer is better. It checks whether a declaration exists, and whether it matches the evidence.
The colophon, as it stands
- Printer
- Paper
- Binding
- Typeface
- Print run
- Production
Books have credited printers, binders and type designers for five hundred years. The last line is the same kind of fact, and most editions leave it empty.
Three states
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No AI
Made without it.
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With AI
Used somewhere in the chain — the entity says where.
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AI only
Made with it throughout.
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Empty
Not a fourth state. A book that has not declared, recorded in those words. Nothing here is inferred, scored, or estimated.
The status is written by the publisher, imprint or brand that made the book, and by no one else. Read the methodology — it is published in full before the first record.