WGA East gives writers free Cloak software against AI, and its maker admits where it slips

WGA East members get Cloak free and other registrants pay $10, but every claim that it works is Cloak's own, and its FAQ says ChatGPT got through some of the time at top effort settings.

Writers Guild of America East members can now run their scripts through Cloak for free, software its maker says leaves a PDF readable to people but not to "most AI models." Anyone else registering a script with the guild can add it for $10, on top of the $25 registration.

The guild, which has more than 7,500 members, says it doesn't want work sent to producers or agents to train AI, or to be "reduced to an AI-generated summary of an email attachment," in the words of its president, Tom Fontana. The Hollywood Reporter put it more bluntly: no AI script coverage by agency assistants, no executives skipping the read.

The fine print is the part to read twice. Cloak's FAQ says its tests ran on Oct 19, the day before launch, against the Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT apps and the summaries in Google Drive, Gmail and Acrobat. The same answer admits ChatGPT showed "varied effectiveness" at its Extra High and Pro effort settings. Its strongest modes add a hidden page or only work in Apple's Preview.

For AI filmmakers, scripts are the raw input for breakdown and previs tools, so more files on your desk may fail to open in them, by design. Ask the writer for a clean copy before you run one through anything.

Source: WGA East release, Oct 20, 2026, and Cloak's own FAQ.

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