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

In the words of a local official, it helps them observe the law, and wading through books is not at the top of the agenda.

The district said it didnt have time to review every book in its collection like the new GOP state law requires. But is AI the answer?

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.

Banned Books

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.

Illustration: The Verge Iowa's Mason City Community School District is pulling 19 books from school libraries that administrators found to contain "a description or depiction of a sex act" in order to comply with Republican-backed state laws. A key arbiter of whether the books should be banned: ChatGPT. The news that the district had used AI software in its decisions was first reported by the Mason City Globe Gazette last week, but it wasn't clear what tool was used — or ho...

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.