{"id":24866,"date":"2026-09-14T05:37:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T03:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/14\/jack-thorne-warns-some-fellow-scriptwriters-are-using-ai-to-cheat\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T05:37:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T03:37:29","slug":"jack-thorne-warns-some-fellow-scriptwriters-are-using-ai-to-cheat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/14\/jack-thorne-warns-some-fellow-scriptwriters-are-using-ai-to-cheat\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Thorne warns some fellow scriptwriters are using AI \u2018to cheat\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adolescence co-writer criticises government inaction and calls for laws banning secret use of AI to generate scripts<\/p>\n<p>Jack Thorne, one of Britain\u2019s most successful screen and stage writers, has warned that some people in his profession are using AI \u201cto cheat\u201d, as he called for laws banning the secret use of the technology to generate scripts.<\/p>\n<p>Thorne, who co-wrote the hit Netflix drama <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2026\/may\/10\/adolescence-dominates-bafta-tv-awards\">Adolescence<\/a> and wrote the stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, said that \u201cwriters need to be squeaky clean\u201d in the face of AI models that \u201csteal\u201d the creative industry\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2026\/sep\/14\/jack-thorne-scriptwriters-ai-artificial-intelligence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1105b21405e76e44c3f7c65096769f8a43e7082d\/0_236_2064_1651\/master\/2064.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=66972da0c57135a9bc5a73a2c4af539b\" title=\"Jack Thorne warns some fellow scriptwriters are using AI \u2018to cheat\u2019\" \/>Adolescence co-writer criticises government inaction and calls for laws banning secret use of AI to generate scripts<br \/>\nJack Thorne, one of Britain\u2019s most successful screen and stage writers, has warned that some people in his profession are using AI \u201cto cheat\u201d, as he called for laws banning the secret use of the technology to generate scripts.<br \/>\nThorne, who co-wrote the hit Netflix drama Adolescence and wrote the stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, said that \u201cwriters need to be squeaky clean\u201d in the face of AI models that \u201csteal\u201d the creative industry\u2019s work. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adolescence co-writer criticises government inaction and calls for laws banning secret use of AI to generate scripts Jack Thorne, one of Britain\u2019s most successful screen and stage writers, has warned that some people in his profession are using AI \u201cto cheat\u201d, as he called for laws banning the secret use of the technology to generate &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/14\/jack-thorne-warns-some-fellow-scriptwriters-are-using-ai-to-cheat\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jack Thorne warns some fellow scriptwriters are using AI \u2018to cheat\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24866"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}