This AI Tool Corrects Gender Bias In Portrayal Of Females In Movies

A 2019 study coined a very interesting term -- 'the Cinderella complex'. The authors of this study analysed 7226 books, 6000 movie synopsis, and 1,100 movie scripts and found that the words used to associate with the male and female characters reeked of gender bias. The lives of the male characters were adventure and aspiration-oriented, whereas the female characters were more passive and romantic-relationship oriented. This is just one of the countless studies that show how gender bias, a lot of time unintentional and a product of societal conditioning, creeps in popular text and media. Keeping this in view, the researchers at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in collaboration with the University of Washington created an AI-based tool that rewrites text to correct potential gender bias in character portrayals.