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An Iowa school district is using ChatGPT to decide which books to ban. Official: "It is simply not feasible to read every book" for depictions of sex. (arstechnica.com)
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An Iowa school district is using ChatGPT to decide which books to ban. Official: "It is simply not feasible to read every book" for depictions of sex.::Official: "It is simply not feasible to read every book" for depictions of sex.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I cannot wait for the day this Iowa school district actually reads the Bible (or the AI brings it up) and has to ban it for that verse(s):

There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. (Ezekiel 23:20)

No getting around the fact that the verse is pretty sexual since the majority of people probably will immediately assume it's about a woman wanting sex. I cannot say whether it is or not, but I know I immediately jump to that conclusion.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Religious books are specifically excluded, they did their homework.

It happened in Utah, though: https://www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-npr/2023-06-02/a-utah-school-district-has-removed-the-bible-from-some-schools-shelves

[–] thbb 2 points 1 year ago

Now the Satanists have to declare the Kama sutra and other erotica as sacred books to circumvent this ban.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Damn. Didn't expect this from Utah of all places, even if it's just a single school district.