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Faced with new legislation, Iowa's Mason City Community School District asked ChatGPT if certain books 'contain a description or depiction of a sex act.'

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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The ban attempts to comply with a new law requiring Iowa school library catalogs to be both “age appropriate” and devoid of “descriptions or visual depictions of a sex act.”

Sounds like a stupid law.

We really shouldn't have conservatives anymore.

But also chatGPT seems like the wrong tool for this idiotic endeavor.

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Massive shout out to the teachers who can still teach that sex ed class without books to describe or show things.

Guess it'll have to be a practical lesson 👀

[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Describes the Bible perfectly. Is that banned in Iowa yet?

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 7 points 1 year ago

NO NOT LIKE THAT

[–] Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Expectations: One day we will have an AI that will instantly go through all the books in our library to identity anything sexual so we can ban them and protect the students.

Reality: Due to the nature of the Internet any student at anytime can access all the porn in the world from their personal device they carry around everywhere.

[–] random_character_a@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How about cutting everyones dick off? /s

[–] 5BC2E7@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately partially cutting is basically the norm in US.

Not far enough to prevent dirty dirty masturbation and teen pregnancies.

[–] violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

According to my parents, I'm working on it, apparently

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's nice to hear that your parents support you in your transition ✊

[–] violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

It's complicated.

Am I supposed to line up somewhere or are you just going door-to-door? 😅

[–] Oodelallic@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 year ago

after much deliberation, the mason city community school district board of education came to the unanimous decision to ban selections from the public library based on the recommendations of a popular chat bot that has recently gained notoriety for simply making shit up. the board felt the unorthodox mode of handling the important choice of children's education and enrichment was justified as none of the members had actually read a book. the assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction, who's job is literally to make such decisions, responded with further explanation, "i have more important things to do."

[–] KirbySSM@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

So stupid on so many levels

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Somebody should ask them to have the bot vet the bible then

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Republicans don't want children to know what abuse is so that they can't readily articulate (or reference books that depict abuse) when the same is being done to them at home.

The p in gop stands for projection, and conservatives constantly scream about "others" abusing kids.

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

And yet those idiots won't stop their own sex acts and die out already.

The Bible can go.

[–] tegs_terry 9 points 1 year ago

Isn't this just begging for the Streisand effect?

[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Rem_inds me of the line from Indiana Jones and the last crusade:

Why did you find back for ze book Dr Jones? Slap! What is in ze book, Dr Jones? Slap!! What does it tell you zat it doesn't tell us?? (Catches hand) It tells me that goose-stepping morons such as yourself should try READING books instead of burning them!

To be fair to the schools, btw, they acknowledge that this isn't really a good system. They're not excited to ban books, they're trying to cover their asses legally from a vague, predatory law designed to force librarians to self censor anything that might possibly risk popping a fundy's fabricated bubble.

[–] 6mementomori@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

sigh ^ that's the most correct thing you can say here

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

In their defense there is all kinds of satanic trans buttfucking and child vivisection by gay vampires in The Handmaid’s Tale.

Signed, ChatGPT.