The International Affiliation of Writers Guilds (IAWG) and the Federation of Screenwriters in Europe (FSE) have advanced five principles as an ethical framework for the development and use of artificial intelligence in scriptwriting. (April 11, 2024)

Representing 67,000 professional writers in film, streaming, and television, the two bodies’ memberships are operative in North America; Europe; Israel; South Korea; New Zealand; and South Africa.

These are the 5 principles they have advanced:

1. Affirm that only writers create literary material and that large language models (LLMs) or any other present or future forms of artificial intelligence (AI), cannot be used in place of writers
2. Work to create mechanisms for obligatory transparency and accountability and to ensure writers are informed if AI generated material is used to write, rewrite, polish or perform any additional writing services
3. Advocate for robust licensing mechanisms that require explicit and informed consent for the use of writers’ intellectual property in AI training data with a goal to ensure only intellectual property that has been licensed for such use be included in the datasets of commercialized LLMs, or any other present or future forms of AI
4. Ensure that only human beings are entitled to authors’ rights and recognized under copyright law in the context of machine generated material
5. Advocate for fair remuneration for the use of writers’ intellectual property in LLMs or any other present or future forms of AI

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