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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

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 how exactly officials went about doing it — until Popular Science reported that ChatGPT was used. Th...

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.