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The Mason City Community School District utilized artificial intelligence via ChatGPT to help determine which library books contained sexual material and need to be removed.

A local church and book club have responded to book bans at school libraries.

As if AI wasn't already causing enough issues in the publishing industry, Republicans are now using it to ban books.

This city in Iowa has employed the help of AI in detecting explicit content on books. A city in Iowa has employed the help of artificial intelligence in detecting explicit content found in books and was enlisted by the area's school board to help remove it from their libraries.

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 ...

A school district in Iowa used an AI model to scan books for sexual content. The board removed 19 titles, including Toni Morison's Beloved.

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.

An Iowa school district has banned 19 books using AI following new legislation, which purports to protect children from obscene material.

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.