{
  "id": 15764261,
  "title": "WGA East Is Trying To Help Writers Make Their Work “Unreadable” To AI Models",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/wga-east-is-trying-to-help-writers-make-their-work-unreadable-to-ai",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-20T16:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Deadline",
    "slug": "deadline",
    "url": "https://deadline.com/2026/10/wga-east-ai-software-protect-writing-cloak-1237168630/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Writers Guild of America East is seeking to help its members make it more difficult for their work to be ingested by artificial intelligence models. The union has just begun offering members free access to a software called Cloak, which renders documents “unreadable” by AI models while preserving the formatting. Writers can upload a […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "IndieWire",
        "title": "WGA East Moves to Block AI Models from Training on Members’ Work with New Software Partner Cloak: ‘Give Agency Back to Writers’",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/wga-east-moves-to-block-ai-models-from-training-on-members-work-with",
        "published": "2026-10-20T16:00:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}