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05 — Literary Technology • 8 min read

AI Tools for Novelists: Comparing Privacy Policies, Cloud Retention, and Model Training

A comprehensive audit of the privacy policies of leading AI writing tools in 2026: who trains on your words and who protects your sovereignty.

Scriptorium Editorial Board
Scriptorium Editorial Board
July 12, 2026

Always read the fine print in software terms. If an application reserves the right to use user content to "improve and train machine learning models," your novel is being indexed into commercial training sets.

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Scriptorium Editorial Board
Literary Craft & Research Fellows

Scriptorium Editorial Board

A collective of developmental editors, narrative theorists, and computational linguists dedicated to advancing the craft of long-form fiction.

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