An Iowa school district is using ChatGPT to decide which books to ban - The Verge
Date Linked: 15 August 2023
Source: story link, from theverge.com
Even if ChatGPT could be trusted to do this task, “let’s remove books from libraries with less work” is a good example of how efficiency isn’t always a good thing.
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