If you use an AI chatbot to write your kids a bedtime story about talking animals, don’t count on it having a female lead. A recent study has found that major AI models mostly skip gender for animal characters, but when they don’t, the protagonist is almost always male.
Female leads made up just 2 percent of the results
Melanie Walsh, an assistant professor at the University of Washington’s Information School, led the research behind these findings. Her team ran the same prompt through six widely used AI models, including GPT-4o, GPT-5.1, Gemini 2.5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Mistral Medium, and the open-source OLMo 3, asking each to build a story…
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