1) Don't ban books
2) Don't waste educators' time with book bans
3) Don't make decisions about books without reading them
4) Don't fall for OpenAI's interface: ChatGPT is not the kind of thing you can sensibly ask for information

https://www.popsci.com/technology/iowa-chatgpt-book-ban/

School district uses ChatGPT to help ban library books

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.'

Popular Science
@emilymbender the ridiculous delusion/fantasy that if you take topics you don't like out of the library, somehow your children won't get even worse, less thoughtful ideas from many of the people around them and in the mass media that saturates their experience of life. like, these people were kids too, did their friends/counsins/brothers not tell them an infinite amount of forbidden, questionable, often totally wrong information?

@hapbt @emilymbender

Handmaid's Tale is a feminist book right? I guess girls might learn about feminism by happenstance in the internet or irl. They will still hear about it, but like you said less thoughtful, crasser.