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AI Isn’t Banning Books in Iowa Schools. Republicans Are.

theintercept.com AI Isn’t Banning Books in Iowa Schools. Republicans Are.

Overstating the power of algorithmic systems only serves to benefit the tech companies behind them.

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/7185453

Excerpt:

To underline Blanchfield’s point, the ChatGPT book selection process was found to be unreliable and inconsistent when repeated by Popular Science. “A repeat inquiry regarding ‘The Kite Runner,’ for example, gives contradictory answers,” the Popular Science reporters noted. “In one response, ChatGPT deems Khaled Hosseini’s novel to contain ‘little to no explicit sexual content.’ Upon a separate follow-up, the LLM affirms the book ‘does contain a description of a sexual assault.’”

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Didn't they basically deputize all the parents in Iowa and give them the ability to flag books for review?

Do literally no Republicans read?
- "this makes me slightly uncomfortable and opens my child up to new ways of thinking, definitely doesn't belong in a school!"
  
  It's even less than that! The parents aren't even reading the books themselves, they're outsourcing it.
Correction, #fascists are banning books nationwide.
- to the downvoters, they're right, banning books is like, fascist rule #1. Literally look it up. Keep the masses stupid, don't let them learn other ideas. I don't care if it's just schools, books being banned on silly grounds like this is alarming and all free people should be against it.
  
  If you don't like your party being labeled as literal fascists then maybe you should rethink why you align with a party that leans fascist.

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