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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Biased Tales: Cultural and Topic Bias in Generating Children’s Stories
%A Rooein, Donya
%A Zouhar, Vilém
%A Nozza, Debora
%A Hovy, Dirk
%Y Christodoulopoulos, Christos
%Y Chakraborty, Tanmoy
%Y Rose, Carolyn
%Y Peng, Violet
%S Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
%D 2025
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Suzhou, China
%@ 979-8-89176-332-6
%F rooein-etal-2025-biased
%X Stories play a pivotal role in human communication, shaping beliefs and morals, particularly in children. As parents increasingly rely on large language models (LLMs) to craft bedtime stories, the presence of cultural and gender stereotypes in these narratives raises significant concerns. To address this issue, we present Biased Tales, a comprehensive dataset designed to analyze how biases influence protagonists’ attributes and story elements in LLM-generated stories. Our analysis uncovers striking disparities. When the protagonist is described as a girl (as compared to a boy), appearance-related attributes increase by 55.26%. Stories featuring non-Western children disproportionately emphasize cultural heritage, tradition, and family themes far more than those for Western children. Our findings highlight the role of sociocultural bias in making creative AI use more equitable and diverse.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.3/
%P 52-72

Markdown (Informal)

[Biased Tales: Cultural and Topic Bias in Generating Children’s Stories](https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.3/) (Rooein et al., EMNLP 2025)

• Biased Tales: Cultural and Topic Bias in Generating Children’s Stories (Rooein et al., EMNLP 2025)

ACL

• Donya Rooein, Vilém Zouhar, Debora Nozza, and Dirk Hovy. 2025. Biased Tales: Cultural and Topic Bias in Generating Children’s Stories. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 52–72, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.