Jack Thorne warns writers using AI to 'cheat' and calls for legal bans

In London, a writer of considerable standing has drawn a line between tool and replacement, between assistance and deception. Jack Thorne, president of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain, has warned that some of his peers are quietly surrendering their authorship to artificial intelligence — collecting machine-generated scripts and presenting them as their own. His warning arrives at a moment when the rules governing creative work and the technologies reshaping it remain dangerously unwritten, and when the choices made now may echo for a century.