Banned Books

ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer) is a language-based artificial intelligence chatbot that uses natural language processing to create humanlike conversational dialogue. The language model can respond to questions and compose various written content including articles, social media posts, essays, code, and emails. 

Relying on ChatGPT and other AI software, educators are reviewing texts to determine if they contain depictions of sex acts. However, ChatGPT's accuracy has worsened, and will continue to decline in the future.

Sources and Further Reading: 

Cho, W. (2023, June 29). Authors Sue OpenAI Claiming Mass Copyright Infringement of Hundreds of Thousands of Novels. Wired. Retrieved September 18, 2023, from https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/authors-sue-openai-novels-1235526462/

Creamer, E. (2023, July 5). Authors file a lawsuit against OpenAI for unlawfully ‘ingesting’ their books. The Guardian. Retrieved September 18, 2023, from https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/05/authors-file-a-lawsuit-against-openai-for-unlawfully-ingesting-their-books

Knight, W. (2021, February 4). How Censorship Can Influence Artificial Intelligence. Wired. Retrieved September 18, 2023, from https://www.wired.com/story/how-censorship-can-influence-artificial-intelligence/

Nicoletti, L., & Bass, D. (n.d.). HUMANS ARE BIASED. GENERATIVE AI IS EVEN WORSE. Bloomberg. Retrieved September 18, 2023, from https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-generative-ai-bias/

Paul, A. (2023, July 19). ChatGPT’s accuracy has gotten worse, study shows. Popular Science. Retrieved September 18, 2023, from https://www.popsci.com/technology/chatgpt-human-inaccurate/

Paul, A. (2023, August 14). School district uses ChatGPT to help remove library books. Popular Science. Retrieved September 18, 2023, from https://www.popsci.com/technology/iowa-chatgpt-book-ban/

Ryan-Mosley, T. (2023, September 18). How new tech is helping people circumvent digital authoritarianism. MIT Technology Review. Retrieved September 18, 2023, from https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/09/18/1079668/the-censorship-arms-race/