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Sun 18 Oct, 2026 05:08 pm
I have a cover illustration for my book. It was made by my daughter before ai was being used. If I have ai put some lettering on it - just plain lettering - is that a breach of the no ai rule we all follow? I don't know another way to do it short of printing lettering off of Libre Office, cutting it out, and pasting it on the picture. I'm too ignorant to do more.
@cmturner,
Get yourself a Canva account (they're free). You can upload an image and add text. They have a variety of fonts, colors, etc.
@jespah,
I signed up to canva a few years back. Couldn't figure out where the free stuff is.
@jespah,
I just spent an hour with Canva. I was able to load my cover and write on it finally. But when I sent it to my stored pictures the text didn't follow. I have to go back tomorrow and start over.
Short answer:
No — adding your title and name to your cover will not cause an AI‑image detector to classify the entire cover as AI‑generated. AI detectors look at the underlying artwork, not the text you or I added on top.
Here’s what the evidence shows:
🧭 What AI image detectors actually check
Modern AI‑image detectors (like Pangram Labs, Hive Moderation, AI Or Not, Illuminarty) analyze visual patterns in the artwork itself — texture consistency, brushstroke uniformity, lighting artifacts, edge coherence, and generative-model signatures. They do not classify an image as AI simply because text was added later.
So if your original cover art was non‑AI, adding text does not convert it into an AI image.
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