Molière Ex Machina: AI used to create ‘new work’ by beloved French playwright
TL;DR
A new comedy debuts at Versailles featuring dialogue, music, costumes and scenery created with the AI tool Le Chat. More than 350 years after his death, Molière — France's answer to Shakespeare — receives posthumous co-credit on what's being called a fresh dramatic work.
Nauti's Take
Genuinely interesting: using AI to stage a Molière-style comedy opens new creative space and brings historical material back to life. The catch is the authorship debate — who actually made this, the LLM, the engineers, or a playwright dead for 350 years?
Nauti's take: creative teams should watch experiments like this closely — less for the poetry than for the rights and royalties question lurking underneath.
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