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Shelly Palmer – Dramatron

Today, I want to tell you about Dramatron, an AI language model created by DeepMind that can generate theatrical scripts. You can describe your idea for a movie or TV show and the system can generate a title, character descriptions, and dialogue. Researchers are thinking of it as a "co-writing" tool, which is how we should be thinking of all of these large language models – until they get good enough to work autonomously.

See more at this link - https://deepmind.github.io/dramatron/details.html?mc_cid=3772a3f8fa&mc_eid=116e9f337b

During the development of Dramatron and through discussions with industry professionals, we made several important observations:

• Dramatron is a co-writing system that has only been used in collaboration with human writers, and was not conceived or evaluated to be used autonomously.
• Dramatron’s top-down hierarchical story generation structure does not correspond to every writer's writing process.
• The output of a language model may include elements of the text used to train the language model. One possible mitigation is for the human co-writer to search for substrings from outputs to help to identify plagiarism.
• Dramatron may reproduce biases and stereotypes found in the corpus, and may generate offensive text. One possible mitigation is to use the Perspective API for estimating toxicity scores of the language outputs, and filtering generations based on the Perspective API analysis.