WGA East Moves to Block AI Models from Training on Members’ Work with New Software Partner Cloak: ‘Give Agency Back to Writers’

WGAE Partners With AI-Shielding Tool Cloak

WGA East has partnered with the AI-shielding software Cloak, which will make documents unreadable to most AI models.

WGA East Moves to Block AI Models from Training on Members’ Work with New Software Partner Cloak: ‘Give Agency Back to Writers’

The Writers Guild of America, East unveiled a partnership to help prevent AI models from training off of its members’ work on Tuesday. The software program Cloak, which creates copies of files that are illegible to AI models but readable for humans, will be available for free to WGAE members as part of the union’s benefits program. The encryption tool will protect writers from their work being exploited by AI without their consent. “The WGAE par…

Writers Guild East Inks Deal With AI-Shielding Software Company

The union will offer the tool Cloak, which hinders AI models in their attempt to scan documents, to members and script registrants.

WGA East Is Trying To Help Writers Make Their Work "Unreadable" To AI Models

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 […]

WGA East Strikes Deal With Cloak to Safeguard Screenplays from AI Scraping

The Writers Guild of America East has struck a partnership with the AI shielding tool Cloak, a service that aims to help writers safeguard their work from training AI models. The partnership will provide WGAE members with free access to Cloak, while non-WGAE members can pay $10 for Cloak once they register their script with […]

WGAE Launches Partnership with Cloak, an AI-Shielding Tool for Members, Script Registrants

Cloak, a software that protects creative content from ingestion by AI models, is now available to WGAE members for free as part of their member benefits via wgaeast.org. Non-WGAE members can add Cloak protection when registering their work through WGAE Script Registration for an additional $10.