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AI Isn’t Banning Books in Iowa Schools. Republicans Are.
(theintercept.com)
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This headline is garbage. Not only is it stating something that I haven't heard anyone seriously argue, it has nothing to do with the rest of the article, which just goes on to talk about how shitty a job ChatGPT is doing at the task.
I think he's referring to the "AI is banning books" argument (a strawman) not the "Republicans are banning books" which we all know.
Yeah obviously, but nobody is saying ChatGPT is doing it lol
"Republicans use AI to ban books" == "Republicans are banning books"
Absolutely no one is saying "AI is banning books", which is what the headline is arguing against. It's an argument not being made, just total clickbait.
There was literally an article either yesterday or the day before with the headline "AI being used to ban books in Iowa" or something to that effect.
Republicans are using AI to ban books is very different than saying AI is banning books. Nobody is saying "AI is banning books"
I mean, this is near enough as makes no difference, I think?
Either way I won't have to look at his trash-ass takes anymore, but I'm just saying it does exist and when you run across a take like that, it tends to taint everything near it.
The argument does exist. This article by PEN America is one of the most widely spread ones and largely misrepresents the situation. It's based on a PopSci article with a similar headline, though the contents of the article tell a rather different story.
Nothing really says out loud what's going on: Republicans enacted an extremely vague and unrealistically short deadline book ban as part of a bill (that does some other stuff like removing AIDS education), forcing schools to either throw out every book that might be vaguely suspect or resort to funny measures like this. This school's use of ChatGPT was purely to save books that were on a human-assembled list of challenged books, to reduce the negative effect of the book ban, while being potentially defensible in court (remains to be seen how that'll work out, but they made an "objective" process and stuck to it - that's what matters to them).