Writers get some plagiarism protection with new AI-cloaking tool

According to the Guild, writers can use Cloak to submit work to producers, agents, actors, and other actual humans who might want to read it, while ensuring no AI snooping agents can pilfer their hard work for nefarious, tech bro, copyright-dodging purposes.

“The WGAE partnership with Cloak expands our efforts to protect members’ work and fight back against AI companies exploiting writers and other creative workers,” said Guild president Tom Fontana of Homicide: Life On The Streets and Oz fame. “We’re excited about the partnership with Cloak because it means members don’t need to worry that their work will be used to train AI models after they send it to producers or agents—or simply that the product of weeks, months, or years of work will be reduced to an AI-generated summary of an email attachment.” (That last part seems to imply that certain executives don’t actually read the full scripts they’re sent, a practice Cloak will apparently put a stop to as a fun bonus.)

As for those writers not invited into the Guild, WGAE says their scripts can still be protected through the WGA script registration process for just $10, which seems like a bargain to keep your precious work out of the AI slop heap.