AI learned to mimic Brothers Grimm fairytales--including their sexist stereotypes

The Grimm brothers' seminal book of fairytales is over two centuries old. But the duo has been credit with a new story, "The Princess and the Fox," just this month--with some help from artificial intelligence. Released by the meditation app Calm, "The Princess and the Fox" was written by Botnik, a company that uses machine learning and predictive algorithms to write text. The story was released on the app on April 11, and is available in audio form. This is not necessarily new: AI-generated fairytales have been around for a long while now, with the first dating all the way back to the 1930s, as Mark Riedl, a professor of artificial intelligence at Georgia Tech, writes in his history of AI-generated stories. And programs that mimic the Grimm brothers' language have also been done before, according to Isaac Karth, an AI researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz.