This is a good example of what AI systems like ChatGPT excel at—giving managers and administrators the ability to automate top-down, controversial and harmful decision-making while shielding themselves from accountability. They're a sort of authoritarianism accelerator

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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.'

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@brianmerchant

I HATE this but after reading the article I can't say I blame the school staff. They've been handed a legal requirement they have no time for and have to make a plausible attempt to comply. If there's one thing the chatbots are, it's "plausible".