Abstract:

Today, almost every day we hear about artificial intelligence applications being used in a new field or achieving a new success. Artificial intelligence, which is said to be a much more effective and indispensable element in the future of humanity, meets ordinary users in many areas even today. Traces of artificial intelligence can be seen in social media, banking applications, search engines, call centers and even in the creation of works of art. Fairy tales are one of the literary genres that have come to the fore with artificial intelligence. Fairy tales, among the narrative-based genres of folk literature, are essential elements of cultural transmission and education of new generations.  Tale-telling lives within the framework of a tradition in Turkish culture. In each of the tales compiled from among the people, a specific skeletal structure, stereotypes, and formulas make the narrative enjoyable, with some recurring motifs, messages, and cultural codes.  A fairy tale is not a singular narrative learned in tradition. The role of the report in creating a fairy tale is as significant as the role of the narrator. For this reason, every fairy tale carries traces of the narrator and tradition. This study discusses seven of the seventy of fairy tales dictated to the artificial intelligence engine ChatGPT by the article’s author. Within the scope of the study, the “Turkish fairy tales” written by the artificial intelligence natural language processing software ChatGPT were compared with traditional Turkish fairy tales in terms of structure, motif, and formal context, and it was discussed whether artificial intelligence could be a fairy tale creator/narrator.

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