Introducing Dramatron, the Open-Source Co-Creation Tool Powered by GPT-3

Deepmind announcing public access to Dramatron

Important note: Dramatron (mentioned here recently) is in an early stage of development — the public test has been closed for now.

Dramatron is a work-in-progress, open-source co-creation system for writers of screenplays and theatre plays. It uses GPT-3 under the hood to provide writers with content based on narrative categories to help them edit and rewrite. And it became publicly accessible today! 🚀

What’s exciting about this project is that during the development phase, the Dramatron team had conversations with industry professionals and evaluated the actual use of an AI tool in screenwriting and playwriting.

Their reflections can be found in their pre-print “Co-Writing Screenplays and Theatre Scripts with Language Models: An Evaluation by Industry Professionals”. Most interestingly:

[…] playwrights reflected that they “wouldn’t use [Dramatron] to write a full play,” and that Dramatron’s output can be “formulaic.” Rather, they would use Dramatron for “world building,” for exploring alternative stories by changing characters or plot elements, and…