We just talked about book publishing trends screenwriters should note, and one was the idea that openly marketing yourself as a human (rather than AI) writer would be a way to stand out from the crowd.
Well, there's one potential way to certify that now, and it's Verify My Writing.
Last week, Verify My Writing announced a partnership with the International Screenwriters' Association (ISA) to provide scanning and verification services to the group. ISA will use VMW’s services internally and provide discounted certifications to its members.
“It’s become more and more essential that leaders in the creative arts industries be able to find and verify work that is created by humans,” Derek Newton, VMW founder, said in a statement. “The ISA has been a leader in nurturing and elevating authentic voices through on-screen storytelling, and we are delighted to partner with them in meeting this important mission."
Craig James Pietrowiak, Founder of the International Screenwriters’ Association, said in the statement: "Screenwriting is deeply personal work, and our mission at the ISA has always been to honor the writer while helping their story find the right home. Verify My Writing gives producers and studios confidence that they’re investing in a truly original human voice."
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What Is Verify My Writing?
It's no secret that many people are using artificial intelligence as a shortcut in creative workflows, whether that's in the visual arts with tools like Midjourney or in video with Sora or Nano Banana Pro. AI is also often used to generate screenplay coverage—and, sometimes, the screenplays themselves.
With LLMs operating as amalgamations of written works that churn out approximations of "new" creative content, many concerns about a lack of originality, if not outright plagiarism, have plagued AI content generation from the beginning.
So even if the aforementioned "human-first writer" marketing angle isn't your goal, a tool like this might give readers confidence that the writing is wholly original.
To get a coveted "human" authenticity certificate like the one above, writers submit their work for verification on the site. The checker will flag writing from LLMs like Claude and ChatGPT, as well as text that has been edited after being generated by an LLM (the FAQs don't clarify how).
Text that has been edited and corrected heavily via a suggestion tool or software (we assume something like Grammarly) "may" be detected.
When your work is certified as human, that verification can be viewed by "editors, agents, publishers, producers, and the public" if you choose, per the site.
You might wonder about false positives. After all, there are plenty of people online who purport that every em dash comes from ChatGPT—not so. (I mourn you, beloved em dash.)
But according to VMW, "Good AI alert systems are highly accurate. The one in VMW has been proven to be the best, most reliable, and accurate system on the market—established by five independent, university-run research studies. The system we use has an inaccuracy rate of one in 10,000 at the paragraph level—that’s 99.9999%."
Uploaded materials will not be used in AI training and are visible only to the uploader and the site admin, VMW states.
The International Screenwriters' Association was founded in 2008 and boasts more than 160,000 writers and industry professionals.
