School district uses ChatGPT to help ban library books

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• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The ban attempts to comply with a new law requiring Iowa school library catalogs to be both “age appropriate” and devoid of “descriptions or visual depictions of a sex act.”

  Sounds like a stupid law.

  We really shouldn’t have conservatives anymore.

  But also chatGPT seems like the wrong tool for this idiotic endeavor.

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  • IndiBrony@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Massive shout out to the teachers who can still teach that sex ed class without books to describe or show things.

    Guess it’ll have to be a practical lesson 👀

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  • moistclump@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Describes the Bible perfectly. Is that banned in Iowa yet?

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    • nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      NO NOT LIKE THAT

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• Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Expectations: One day we will have an AI that will instantly go through all the books in our library to identity anything sexual so we can ban them and protect the students.

  Reality: Due to the nature of the Internet any student at anytime can access all the porn in the world from their personal device they carry around everywhere.

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  • random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How about cutting everyones dick off? /s

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    • violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      According to my parents, I’m working on it, apparently

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    • tegs_terry@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Can we not start with the ‘/s’ horseshit on this site? It’s absolutely awful and unnecessary.

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• Oodelallic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  after much deliberation, the mason city community school district board of education came to the unanimous decision to ban selections from the public library based on the recommendations of a popular chat bot that has recently gained notoriety for simply making shit up. the board felt the unorthodox mode of handling the important choice of children’s education and enrichment was justified as none of the members had actually read a book. the assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction, who’s job is literally to make such decisions, responded with further explanation, “i have more important things to do.”

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• KirbySSM@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So stupid on so many levels

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• Tangent5280@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Somebody should ask them to have the bot vet the bible then

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• Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Republicans don’t want children to know what abuse is so that they can’t readily articulate (or reference books that depict abuse) when the same is being done to them at home.

  The p in gop stands for projection, and conservatives constantly scream about “others” abusing kids.

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• tegs_terry@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Isn’t this just begging for the Streisand effect?

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• GigglyBobble@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And yet those idiots won't stop their own sex acts and die out already.

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• andrewrgross@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Rem_inds me of the line from Indiana Jones and the last crusade:

  Why did you find back for the con Dr Jones? Slap! What is in the book, Dr Jones? Slap!! What does it tell you zat it doesn’t tell us?? (Catches hand) It tells me that goose-stepping morons such as yourself should try READING books instead of burning them!

  To be fair to the schools, btw, they acknowledge that this isn’t really a good system. They’re not excited to ban books, they’re trying to cover their asses legally from a vague, predatory law designed to force librarians to self censor anything that might possibly risk popping a fundy’s fabricated bubble.

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• 6mementomori@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  sigh ^ that’s the most correct thing you can say here

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