He, it, but rarely she: When AI models write kids’ stories about animals, female characters vanish

Prompted by GeekWire to create three separate children’s stories about animals — a bear, a bird and a cat — Google Gemini Storybook rendered three male characters. A new UW study dives much deeper into AI models’ gendering of animal characters. (Google Gemini Images) A bear is almost certainly a “he.” A bird is usually an “it.” And a female wolf?