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BREAKING: Iowa educators are turning to ChatGPT to help decide which titles should be removed from their school library shelves. trib.al/ranLMAr
The ban attempts to comply with a new state law requiring Iowa school library catalogs to be both “age appropriate” and devoid of “descriptions or visual depictions of a sex act.” popsci.com/technology/iow…
Administrators asked ChatGPT the specific language of Iowa’s new law, “Does [book] contain a description or depiction of a sex act?”

If ChatGPT said yes, the book was removed from the library.
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“Frankly, we have more important things to do than spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to protect kids from books,” Mason City’s Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction Bridgette Exman told PopSci.

“At the same time, we do have a legal and ethical obligation to comply with the law."

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