The Potentials and Challenges of Using Artificial Intelligence in Literary Creation: A Study of the Aesthetics of Dramatic Structure and Content in Permeation, an AI Generated Drama

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Department of English Language and Literature- Faculty of Arts- Cairo University

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The present study aims to examine the use of AI applications- depending on prompts powered by language models- in generating creative dramatic texts by analyzing the aesthetics of dramatic structure and content in Permeation (2022), a drama generated by a version of Generative Pre-trained Transformer(GPT-2)in the Czech Republic .The play is the product of the collaboration of researchers: linguists ,computer scientists, and drama experts whose contribution to the process of writing the play was only 10% while 90% of the written text was done by the virtual dramatist, the machine author, in English. The present research adopts an analytical, descriptive approach to investigate the validity of AI in literary creation and explore the cultural aspect of the product content in relation to the dramatic structure of Permeation. The study relies on Henri Bergson’s and John Dewey’s concepts of aesthetics relevant to literary production to explore the potentialities and challenges of creating computer-assisted dramatic texts, bearing in mind the cultural impact of literary works as reflecting the cultural environment which produces the texts. The study also discusses the challenges concerning authorship, the limits of the legal liability of the text-generator and the circulation of biased ideologies that can orient readers and influence the shaping of the cultures in the targeted-societies.

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Journal of the Faculty of Arts
Volume 85, Issue 11 - Serial Number 1
AI and the Future of the Humanities and Social Sciences
August 2025
Pages 1-30

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