You can add regressive academic censorship to the list of unintended use cases for ChatGPT-like artificial intelligence models. In Iowa, a school district reportedly deployed AI software to identify and remove 19 books in order to comply with legislation prohibiting titles with “descriptions or visual depictions of a sex act” from school libraries. The law has already led to the hasty removal of crucial 20th-century literary classics like Maya Angelou’s Where the Caged Bird Sings, and Toni Morri
Officials from Mason City School District in Iowa used ChatGPT to carry out the banning of books containing depictions of sex from schools under its jurisdiction.
Books are being pulled from the shelves of Mason City Schools libraries to comply with new legislation Gov. Kim Reynolds says will protect children from damaging and obscene material.