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No. 48 (2024)
Special Isuue: Literature and Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence

ARTICLES

Non-sexist Narratives for Children and Artificial Intelligence. Study of applications for Inclusive Education

https://doi.org/10.19053/uptc.01218530.n48.2024.17881

Published 2024-12-02

  • Fernando Azevedo
    • ,
  • Carmen Ferreira Boo
    • ,
  • Marta Neira-Rodríguez

Fernando Azevedo
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Carmen Ferreira Boo
Universidade da Coruña, España

Marta Neira-Rodríguez
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, España

Abstract

With the frenetic advance of Artificial Intelligence (AI), many potential uses in different sectors are brought to light, including the production of children’s literature. The aim is to analyze how AI promotes values and gender representation in narratives created for children. By means of an exploratory and qualitative study, the narratives created by two applications which use IA, available on the Product Hunter platform with four models of Large Language Models, with the same prompt, are contrasted. The results show that AI is a powerful tool to promote non-sexist and inclusive narratives and to generate stories that defy stereotypes and promote diverse representations of gender. Nevertheless, we conclude that collaboration is necessary between IA developers, experts in children’s literature and gender studies scholars to educate a more conscious and tolerant towards diversity generation.

Keywords

creativity, gender stereotypes, artificial intelligence, children's narrative, content personalization, non-sexis, non-sexist narratives

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Author Biography

Fernando Azevedo

PhD in Literature Sciences and associate professor with aggregation at the Institute of Education of the Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal) in the areas of Didactics of the Portuguese Language and Lecturer Training. Vice-president of the Institute of Education at the University of Minho and director of the Doctoral Program in Child Studies. Scientific manager of the Braga Local Reading Plan and the Guimarães Local Reading Plan. Member of the Research Center for Child Studies (CIEC) and the Observatory of Children's and Youth Literature (OBLIJ).

Carmen Ferreira Boo

PhD in Philology from the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. Assistant Professor of Language and Literature Didactics at the Faculty of Education Sciences of the Universidade A Coruña. Member of the Arte-Facto Research Group and researcher of the Red Temática de Investigación LIJMI and the Centro Ramón Piñeiro para a Investigación en Humanidades.

Marta Neira-Rodríguez

PhD in Philology from the University of Santiago de Compostela. Associate Professor of Didactics of Language and Literature at the Faculty of Education Sciences (USC). Member of the Research Group LITER21 and the Institute of Educational Sciences of the USC and researcher of the Thematic Research Network LIJMI and the Ramón Piñeiro Center for Research in Humanities.

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