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Why Quillium's AI features are off by default, and why writers are right to be suspicious of AI in the first place.
That’s what a friend replied when I posted about Quillium on my Instagram story. He didn’t even look at the website: he saw simply “writing tool” and assumed the worst.
Around the same time, another friend shared Quillium with her creative writing club. She described it exactly right: non-linear writing, branching sentences, keeping multiple versions alive. The club’s response? They liked the editing concept.
But the AI part—which was mentioned at the very end as a “completely optional feature”—they were not too fond of. AI stealing art, the environment, AI controversy in general—they didn’t want it anywhere near their writing.
Two different people, two different contexts, same reaction. And honestly? I can’t blame either of them.
The last two years have flooded the internet with AI-generated slop. Blog posts that say nothing. Marketing copy that reads like a fever dream. Dead vocabulary—just the very obvious “AI accent” that is present everywhere artificially generated.