AI Policy | QuilLab

What Quilliam writes

Quilliam answers questions about your book, cites the notes and scenes he used, and suggests changes to wiki notes. He doesn't write manuscript prose. Rewrite with Quilliam works on note text only.

What Quilliam reads

He reads only what a question needs. You can limit him to one book, a folder of notes, or the sources you pin.

How changes reach your notes

Every change arrives as a card you apply, unless you choose Approve Edits or Approve All. Anything he removes goes to Trash for 30 days.

The AI models behind Quilliam

Quilliam answers with OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna. When OpenAI is unavailable, the request goes to Google's Gemini on Vertex AI instead. Proofing's automatic spelling and grammar checks run on your computer and send nothing. The AI features that use Google's models, such as the AI grammar check, run only when you use them.

Requests go from the app to QuilLab's server and on to the provider, so the app never holds an AI key. The server keeps no copy of the text. It records how many tokens you used, for the limits below.

Under their API terms, OpenAI and Google do not train their models on these requests. OpenAI keeps API requests for up to 30 days to check for abuse, then deletes them. Google may log requests to check for abuse under its Cloud terms, and caches some for up to 24 hours to answer faster.

Usage limits

During the beta, each account can use 1,000,000 tokens a day and 4,000,000 a week with Quilliam. The daily count starts over at midnight where you are, and the weekly count at midnight on Sunday. Other AI features have daily caps of their own and don't count toward these.

These limits may change as more writers use Quilliam and we learn what they need.

The Words Stay Yours

In recent years AI has become both a plague and a boon.

It can summarize a paper or organize spreadsheets, but it's also used to spawn a horde of slop reels and to destroy creativity. It upsets me to see authors being exposed for using AI to write their book, or ghostwriting platforms advertising themselves on my social media pages.

QuilLab is not that.

It's not here to replace you as an artist.

There's a reason this is “Built by Authors for Authors.” It's because QuilLab takes what's good about AI and combines it with a suite of programmatic tools to help your art.

Why not use AI to find out where in your manuscript you described a certain family heirloom or fictional creature, then update your wiki notes about it to be accurate with the text, complete with linked citations? All with only, at most, offering spelling or grammar corrections on your actual manuscript.

And there's the controversy around training AI off another's work without their permission.

QuilLab does not train any AI off of your manuscript, wiki, or anything you input.

We use specific providers in order to ensure that your brainchild will not be consumed by the machine and used to write somebody else's slop story.

So keep writing, wherever you choose to do so. Enjoy it. It's an art, not a task to get done. Don't replace yourself either in your profession or your hobbies, make yourself irreplaceable in both. Please don't compromise your artistic integrity by pretending a machine's work is your own. Be the artist. It's the hard path, but when has anything trivial been worth celebrating?

Sid, Founder of QuilLab

Stays on your computer	Your manuscript, wiki, files, and snapshots.
Leaves when you use AI	What an AI feature needs for its answer, such as the notes and scenes for a question to Quilliam. It goes to OpenAI or Google.
Never happens	Training AI models on your writing, selling your data, or ads.