Fiverr's Real AI Disclosure Rules: What You Actually Have to Say (and When)

Search Fiverr’s seller forums for “AI disclosure” and you will find sellers arguing three different versions of the rule, plus at least one thread convinced there is an “AI Verified” badge that flags who used AI and who did not. There is no such badge anywhere on Fiverr’s site. What is there is a real, specific policy, and it is more forgiving than most of the forum chatter suggests, with two exceptions that carry real account risk.

The default: nothing to disclose in your gig description

Fiverr does not require sellers to proactively state that a delivery involved AI. A gig description, a portfolio piece, a first draft handed back to a buyer, none of it needs an “AI was used here” note attached by default. Fiverr’s own guidance on AI use frames this as permitted tool use across every service category, the same as any other software in your workflow.

Source: Fiverr Help Center, “Using AI on Fiverr: Guidelines for freelancers and clients”

That default only holds as long as the work is your own: reviewed, refined, and tailored to what the buyer asked for, not a raw, unedited AI output passed off as finished work.

What flips the rule: the buyer asking, or asking first

Two situations require disclosure. If a buyer directly asks whether AI was used, you tell them the truth. If a buyer states a “no AI” preference before or at the start of an order, you are expected to disclose your workflow and work within that preference from that point forward. Neither of those has to be announced up front. Both become mandatory the moment a buyer raises them.

Situation	Disclosure required	What Fiverr expects
Buyer does not ask, no AI preference stated	No	Deliver original, tailored work; no proactive statement needed
Buyer asks directly, or requests “no AI” upfront	Yes	Tell the truth about your workflow, and honor the preference going forward
Using Fiverr’s own AI Personal Assistant	Yes, always	Disclosure has no opt-out for this specific tool

The one disclosure that has no opt-out

Fiverr’s AI Personal Assistant, the inbox tool some sellers use to auto-reply to buyer messages, sits outside the conditional rule above. Using it to answer for you must be disclosed every time, regardless of whether the buyer asked. It is the one place Fiverr draws a hard line instead of leaving it to the buyer to raise.

Where the real risk sits

The dispute risk is not AI use itself. It is presenting AI-generated work as your own when a buyer directly asked and you said otherwise. Fiverr reviews the full context of a flagged order: whether the buyer stated a preference before or at the start of the order, whether the delivery is original and tailored rather than generic AI output, and whether you were straight about how it was made. A trust breach on that last point can mean a canceled order, a refund to the buyer, and a suspended account. That is a heavier consequence than the underlying AI use would ever justify on its own.

Off Fiverr, this is a conversation you have to start yourself

None of this policy exists once you are working with a direct client instead of through Fiverr’s marketplace. There is no platform rule deciding when you owe a disclosure, no “no AI” toggle a client can flip at checkout. Whether and how you use AI tools, and what you tell a client about it, becomes a private agreement you set with each client, the same way you already have to set your own estimate and invoice process once you leave a platform behind.

A BillyPaid quote is a fast way to put your own terms in writing before a project starts, AI workflow included if that is a term worth stating up front, so nothing about how you deliver the work is left to guesswork later.