Jack Thorne warns some fellow scriptwriters are using AI ‘to cheat’

‘If publishers, studios, streamers, can point to the writer as the problem, that gives them the excuse to behave however they’d like with content,’ Thorne said. Photograph: Dave Benett/Alan Chapman/WireImage

Jack Thorne, one of Britain’s most successful screen and stage writers, has warned that some people in his profession are using AI “to cheat”, as he called for laws banning the secret use of the technology to generate scripts.

Thorne, who co-wrote the hit Netflix drama Adolescence and wrote the stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, said that “writers need to be squeaky clean” in the face of AI models that “steal” the creative industry’s work.