How to use
NovelAI.

1. 01

   Start at https://novelai.net/ and confirm the domain before entering account or payment information.

2. 02

   Availability: NovelAI runs in a web browser as a subscription service, with encrypted remote story storage, local export, session-based image history, and an isolated scripting API for extensions.

3. 03

   A modern browser and account, a suitable subscription and Anlas balance, secure credentials and recovery planning, rights to references and shared lore, local backups, and editorial review.

4. 04

   Sign in with the account you intend to keep using, then review plan, data, notification, and permission settings.

5. 05

   Run one low-risk test task before connecting sensitive files, repositories, or workspace data.

• Use official download pages.
• Review permissions during setup.
• Keep installers and applications updated.

1. 01

   Create a brief for genre, viewpoint, characters, setting, tone, boundaries, canon, audience, ownership, and the exact role AI may play.

2. 02

   Start a locally backed-up story, keep authoritative facts in Memory or a carefully keyed Lorebook, and provide a short human-written opening rather than an entire private archive.

3. 03

   Generate one continuation at a time, edit it into your own voice, and track contradictions, repetition, unsafe content, accidental similarity, and canon changes.

4. 04

   Export versioned story and plain-text backups, fact-check real claims, complete originality and sensitivity review, and never publish raw model output as finished authorship.

• State the outcome before the background.
• Provide the real source material.
• Review the result before expanding the task.

1. 01

   Restate the brief, the deliverable format, and where the asset will appear before judging any output.

2. 02

   Inspect at full resolution: generated media hides its errors at thumbnail size.

3. 03

   Check the details these systems reliably get wrong — hands, text, logos, reflections, symmetry, and edge artefacts.

4. 04

   Confirm the licence and commercial-use terms for your plan, and check the output does not reproduce a recognisable style, mark, or likeness you have no right to use.

5. 05

   Review for accessibility and delivery: alt text, contrast, colour profile, file size, and the exact export format.

• Inspect at full resolution before approving anything.
• Confirm commercial-use rights before an asset reaches a client.
• Keep the prompt and settings with the asset so it can be reproduced.

1. 01

   Confirm you hold the rights to every reference image, voice, or clip before uploading it.

2. 02

   Check whether your plan trains on submitted content, and opt out before uploading client work.

3. 03

   Never upload a real person's likeness or voice without their explicit, documented consent.

4. 04

   Review the output for marks, styles, or likenesses you have no licence to reproduce.

5. 05

   Label synthetic media where your client, platform, or jurisdiction requires disclosure.

• Generated prose and images can reproduce clichés, stereotypes, signatures, recognizable characters, or material too similar to existing work. NovelAI's privacy model does not replace backups: forgotten credentials can make encrypted stories unrecoverable, deleted stories cannot be restored, and unsaved image sessions disappear. Preserve metadata when reproducibility matters, clear rights for references and sharing, review Explore uploads carefully, and keep human editorial ownership.
• Follow your organisation's approved-use policy.
• Never treat fluent output as authorization to act.

• NovelAI documentation ↗
• NovelAI FAQ and privacy ↗
• NovelAI image generation ↗
• NovelAI terms ↗

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