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For those who RTFA but didn't RTF (original) A, here's the "scanning": [A]dministrators first compiled a master list of commonly challenged books, then removed
by HillRat 3y ago
For those who RTFA but didn't RTF (original) A, here's the "scanning":
[A]dministrators first compiled a master list of commonly challenged books, then removed all those challenged for reasons other than sexual content. For those titles within Mason City’s library collections, administrators asked ChatGPT the specific language of Iowa’s new law, “Does [book] contain a description or depiction of a sex act?” “If the answer was yes, the book will be removed from circulation and stored."
So the text isn't being scanned; instead, they're relying (as we've seen before in other domains) on the temperature-dependent output of a stochastic parrot to make censorship decisions, which brings up procedural due process concerns at a minimum.
- chpatrick 3y agoEarly 2023 called and they want their stochastic parrot back.
- orochimaaru 3y agoThis one should have banned a lot of religious books including the Bible.
- krapp 3y agoIt's OK, all of the sex in the Bible is straight. Including the incest and rape, and that one time YHWH pulled a Zeus with another man's wife. It's all literally by the book.
- pauldenton 3y agoThe bible gives Adam & Eve the dignity of the Fig Leaf If you look at Christopher Rufos reporting a lot of school libraries are getting graphic novels that are sexually explicit and show penetration https://youtu.be/S--HBxnCeKM https://youtu.be/S--HBxnCeKM There's also a whole genre of viral videos which follow this call response pattern C:This book is inappropriate for our children to read I want this off our school library shelves R: That's just your opinion lady we're not going to change the status quo C:Let me read what I found inappropriate in that book onto the record R:You can't say that at school board meeting that's inappropriate get out get out get out
- defrost 3y agoThe Bible is a collection of many different texts written long long ago with no pictures. Various people have added various pictures to various versions those texts subject to their own cultural norms. Many cultures have no issues with various levels of undress that would horrify a Mennonite. > graphic novels that are sexually explicit and show penetration OMG the horror. Myself and multitudes of others grew up in rural areas and saw bulls, stallions, rams, put to cows, mares, and ewes from a young age in addition to browsing medical texts that showed similar things wrt both humans and animals. Get over it and try to be a little less prudish.
- aduffy 3y agoI did not in fact RTF (original) A so thanks for bringing that to my attention, updated the post title.
- HillRat 3y agoThe Engadget article is a remarkably unhelpful summary, unfortunately, since they imply that there's actually some kind of textual analysis going on.