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.
Author Brad Meltzer reacts after the York, Pa., school district banned his children's book, 'I Am Rosa Parks,' along with others that involve race and history.to examine library books and help identify which contain sexually explicit material that needed to be removed from school property to comply with a new state law. signed a parental rights bill, which requires all books in public school libraries describing sex acts be removed. The law took effect July 1.
"Our classroom and school libraries have vast collections, consisting of texts purchased, donated and found. It is simply not feasible to read every book and filter for these new requirements," Bridgette Exman, the district’s assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction, told The Gazette.
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