I am extremely skeptical that "AI" would do a good job with this. Old folk tales have a lot of local cultural, historical, and cultural context which the translator needs to take into account and explain. AI systems, in contrast, would turn this into a language they know best - which is largely Reddit posts of the last decade.

And the notion that "the Bible and Shakespeare have covered all plots" to be extremely reductive even for the English language. It gets rather insulting when you consider cultures outside of the Anglosphere, or "The West" in general.

@melsaskca @juergen_hubert you're missing out on the literary traditions of everything outside the dead white male author western tradition. You should read literature by people outside that narrow demographic.