{
  "id": 15807232,
  "title": "Writers get some plagiarism protection with new AI-cloaking tool",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/writers-get-some-plagiarism-protection-with-new-ai-cloaking-tool",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-20T17:34:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The A.V. Club",
    "slug": "the-a-v-club",
    "url": "https://www.avclub.com/ai-protection-tool-cloak-wgae"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Writers Guild of America East has introduced a new tool to safeguard the work of its members from being stolen by artificial intelligence. In a press release, WGAE announced that all guild members will have access to a software called Cloak, which is designed to prevent AI engines from \"ingesting\" their content. This means that writers can submit their work to producers, agents, and other human readers without the fear of AI snoopers pilfering their hard work for unlicensed use.\n\nWGAE's president, Tom Fontana, expressed his enthusiasm for the partnership with Cloak, stating that it broadens the guild's efforts to protect its members' work and combat the unethical exploitation of writers by AI companies. The software promises to preserve the integrity of writers' creations, preventing them from being reduced to mere summaries or used to train AI models after being sent to professionals. Cloak's ability to stop AI from accessing full scripts could potentially disrupt the practice of executives skimming through content without thoroughly reading it. At $10 per script, the WGA script registration process offers a cost-effective way for writers not in the Guild to protect their work as well.",
  "summary": "The AI-thwarting software, fittingly called Cloak, will shield writers' work from AI-scraping.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "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."
}