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DeepMind Created An AI Tool That Can Help Generate Rough Film and Stage Scripts 26

Posted by BeauHD from the co-writing-tools dept.
Alphabet's DeepMind has built an AI tool that can help generate rough film and stage scripts Engadget's Kris Holt reports: Dramatron is a so-called "co-writing" tool that can generate character descriptions, plot points, location descriptions and dialogue. The idea is that human writers will be able to compile, edit and rewrite what Dramatron comes up with into a proper script. Think of it like ChatGPT, but with output that you can edit into a blockbuster movie script. To get started, you'll need an OpenAI API key and, if you want to reduce the risk of Dramatron outputting "offensive text," a Perspective API key. To test out Dramatron, I fed in the log line for a movie idea I had when I was around 15 that definitely would have been a hit if Kick-Ass didn't beat me to the punch. Dramatron quickly whipped up a title that made sense, and character, scene and setting descriptions. The dialogue that the AI generated was logical but trite and on the nose. Otherwise, it was almost as if Dramatron pulled the descriptions straight out of my head, including one for a scene that I didn't touch on in the log line.

Playwrights seemed to agree, according to a paper (PDF) that the team behind Dramatron presented today. To test the tool, the researchers brought in 15 playwrights and screenwriters to co-write scripts. According to the paper, playwrights said they wouldn't use the tool to craft a complete play and found that the AI's output can be formulaic. However, they suggested Dramatron would be useful for world building or to help them explore other approaches in terms of changing plot elements or characters. They noted that the AI could be handy for "creative idea generation" too. That said, a playwright staged four plays that used "heavily edited and rewritten scripts" they wrote with the help of Dramatron. DeepMind said that in the performance, experienced actors with improv skills "gave meaning to Dramatron scripts through acting and interpretation."
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  • "rough film and stage scripts" (Score:3)

    by Arethan ( 223197 ) on Friday December 09, 2022 @08:33PM (#63118292) Journal

    I'm sure the dialog will be quite intriguing

    Player 1: Hello
    Player 2: F You Guyzzz!
    Player 2: You suck your mom!

  • 1000 monkeys can do better! (Score:3)

    by Joe_Dragon ( 2206452 ) on Friday December 09, 2022 @08:43PM (#63118296)

    1000 monkeys can do better!

  • GONCHAROV!

  • This is doubtlessly trained on existing scripts, which suggests that it might end up generating a story very similar to a script in its training set.

    A writer using this tool might end up plagiarizing a script they legitimately had never heard of. Which might create an interesting legal scenario.

    Otherwise, very cool. This is the first text generation engine that seems to have a clear practical application.

    • This is doubtlessly trained on existing scripts, which suggests that it might end up generating a story very similar to a script in its training set.

      Have you ever seen a Hallmark movie? How would it be distinguishable from any other form of modern genre script? You can mash up scenes from any one of fifteen current "cute teen witch with supernatural powers juggles high school social calendar and fights evil while two cute monster boys vie for her attention" shows and they are already entirely indistinguishable save for hairstyles.

      • This is doubtlessly trained on existing scripts, which suggests that it might end up generating a story very similar to a script in its training set.

        Have you ever seen a Hallmark movie? How would it be distinguishable from any other form of modern genre script? You can mash up scenes from any one of fifteen current "cute teen witch with supernatural powers juggles high school social calendar and fights evil while two cute monster boys vie for her attention" shows and they are already entirely indistinguishable save for hairstyles.

        The issue is not if it's not a mashup, but if the plot matches a previous script too closely or even if a scene looks too similar.

        Accusations and lawsuits are far from uncommon [theguardian.com] so it seems somewhat inevitable that if people use this tool it will eventually end up part of a lawsuit.

  • A good story is built around emotional principles about how to engage an audience - not about mechanical selection of locations or participants. A good writer knows how to engage the audience and does it by being in tune with the cultures. An AI that statistically and mechanically copies existing story structures is a total fraud. As an AI researcher I have been getting kind of angry over the snake oil coming out of the funded AI researchers at Google and OpenAI and a few other places. The large language m

    • But training a register a word size at a time is not possible. While taking a large lalanguage model as you describe then wrapping it with some presentation/application logic is impractical yet nobody seems to mind doing that.

    • A good story is built around emotional principles about how to engage an audience - not about mechanical selection of locations or participants. A good writer knows how to engage the audience and does it by being in tune with the cultures.

      An AI that statistically and mechanically copies existing story structures is a total fraud. As an AI researcher I have been getting kind of angry over the snake oil coming out of the funded AI researchers at Google and OpenAI and a few other places. The large language model approach is bogus in many ways. It produces results but the results are devoid of connection to meaning. They are merely emulations of patterns, shallow, and they lack meaningful meaning. They are in a word, flashy crap.

      So you agree they've made a Hollywood script generator?

  • No need for fancy AI!

    https://wronghands1.files.word... [wordpress.com]

  • The second age... (Score:3)

    by Kelxin ( 3417093 ) on Saturday December 10, 2022 @01:56AM (#63118660)
    First we built computers to do what we tell them. Now we build computers to tell us what to do.

  • Procedurally generated video games (Score:3)

    by Dr. Spork ( 142693 ) on Saturday December 10, 2022 @03:01AM (#63118700)
    This was another missing piece in procedurally generated video games. I suspect that pretty soon somebody is going to stitch together a tool like this, some diffusion-based visuals generator, and chatGPT for dialogue, and we'll have an awesome open-world game with infinite replayability. All the pieces are falling into place!
  • Half the content on Netflix seems AI generated. I look at "Birdbox", "The Silence", "The Rain", "How it ends", "A quite place", "Hot Skull" and all I see is the same theme, just re-skinned with different actors and a different "topic".
    • 80% of the budget is always taken by 20% of the projects, and it seems like a good Paretto rule described in https://assignmentpay.com/how-... [assignmentpay.com] learning platform. So think of these movies/series as filler. Netflix seems to just do whatever it takes to stay the biggest streaming site.

  • Watson could do everything, 3 times as fast, and bring World Peace at the same time.

  • There is an old book that contains the basic 1000 or so story plots. Now the geniuses have computerized it.

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