WGA East Partners to Shield Scripts From AI Scraping

WHO:

Deadline - The Writers Guild of America East (WGA East) is offering its members access to the software Cloak.

Variety - WGA East partnered with Cloak, an AI-shielding tool.

Variety - WGA East members receive free access to Cloak; non-WGA East members can pay $10 after registering their script with the service.

WHAT:

Deadline - WGA East has begun offering members free access to Cloak.

Deadline - Cloak renders documents “unreadable” to AI models while preserving their formatting.

Variety - The partnership is intended to help writers safeguard screenplays from being scraped for AI training.

WHY:

Deadline - WGA East is providing the software to make it more difficult for writers’ work to be ingested by AI models.

Variety - Cloak is intended to help writers protect their work from use in training AI models.

HOW:

Deadline - Writers can upload a document to Cloak, which alters it to make it “unreadable” to AI models while retaining its formatting.

Variety - Non-WGA East members can access Cloak for $10 once they register their script with the service.

(UPDATED October 21, 2026 00:41 UTC)

The Writers Guild of America East is offering its members free access to Cloak, a tool designed to make screenplays unreadable to AI models while preserving their formatting. The partnership aims to make it harder for writers’ work to be scraped and used to train AI. Writers upload a document to Cloak for processing, and nonmembers can use the service for $10 after registering their script.