Administrators asked ChatGPT the specific language of Iowa’s new law, “Does [book] contain a description or depiction of a sex act?” If ChatGPT said yes, the book was removed from the library. - ThreadSky

phillewis.bsky.social • 567 days ago

Administrators asked ChatGPT the specific language of Iowa’s new law, “Does [book] contain a description or depiction of a sex act?”

If ChatGPT said yes, the book was removed from the library.

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funkyamphibious.bsky.social•567 days ago

Somehow fascism got lazier

spinny.bsky.social•567 days ago

Fascist lawmakers and spineless managers can get the same thing.

tlatshaw.bsky.social•567 days ago

Cool, cool. How about they ask ChatGPT who to vote for in the primary?

46n2ahead.bsky.social•567 days ago

These people are almost impressively stupid.

forevernever.bsky.social•567 days ago

I'm sure this is just as accurate as when that appellate lawyer asked for case law to support his argument (chatgpt literally made up the cases, complete with fake citations)

ericm.cd•567 days ago

funny enough, also the same prompt that teens use to make a reading list

lydiabeeyoobee.bsky.social•567 days ago

Next up, biology material about how flowers pollinate I guess

keeptheskyblue.bsky.social•567 days ago

This is exactly the sort of thing LLM's are really bad at. 🙄

numerounochef.bsky.social•567 days ago

Yup, LLMs aren’t designed for this unless part of the query is entire text of the book (which is not possible rn).

keeptheskyblue.bsky.social•566 days ago

I think the problem is the interpretation of the words 'sex act' mostly.

numerounochef.bsky.social•566 days ago

The issue is that the LLM doesn’t have the text of the book to scan/search. Beyond just the subjective nature of “sex act”.

keeptheskyblue.bsky.social•566 days ago

I assume ChatGPT has access to many older books but not sure.

numerounochef.bsky.social•566 days ago

Yeah that’s just not how LLM’s work. They don’t, like reference the book and do the analysis, unless you give them the text as part of the prompt.

vegetablegremlin.bsky.social•565 days ago

This is so stupid jesus christ theyre really out there convincing people autocomplete is an oracle

fernmonkey.bsky.social•567 days ago

That chapter in The Handmaid's Tale is one of the least sexy things that's ever been committed to paper. At that point, you need to remove all biology textbooks which describe meiosis.

robocopfacts.bsky.social•567 days ago

This is genuinely the dumbest possible timeline

numb.comfortab.ly•567 days ago

They must remove the Bible stat.

shadypyro.bsky.social•567 days ago

Should be the first book removed at that point.

08mms.bsky.social•567 days ago

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song%20of%20Songs%207&version=NIV

numb.comfortab.ly•567 days ago

oh there are much much worse parts

joegordon.bsky.social•567 days ago

*better. “Lusted after lovers with genitals as big as a donkey’s and emissions like that of a horse.” Ezekiel 23:20

numb.comfortab.ly•567 days ago

There's also tons of rape and incest.

joegordon.bsky.social•567 days ago

Mistranslations and versions where you have to Know the Context have hidden so much from the average American Christian. Noah and what Leviticus means by “uncovering the nakedness.”

mattihase.bsky.social•567 days ago

well at least old zeke had pretty high standards in a husbando

beejieweejie.bsky.social•563 days ago

So, there goes the Bible I guess, unless it's skating by on "..____ begat _____"?

kakotechnia.bsky.social•567 days ago

Some people will do anything to avoid reading a book

suddenlygarmo.bsky.social•567 days ago

(sadly) lmao

maryaed.bsky.social•567 days ago

They allegedly pulled Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, what? It even has a "don't sleep with your boyfriend, he might murder you if you get pregnant" message baked right in! Not that anyone is reading an 800+ page novel to get to some tiny sexy bit (which I can't recall, if it exists).

drownignotwaving.bsky.social•567 days ago

the race to the bottom of stupidity is just staggering.

non American here it’s just insane to watch.

sunnykate.bsky.social•567 days ago

Who could have predicted that undervaluing reading would lead to prohibiting it?

christine-m.bsky.social•567 days ago

So wrong on so many levels.

Book banning: Not the way to go if you want to raise an educated youth populace.

Criteria: If they must go down that lane - get the criteria right, including context criteria.

AI for crucial decision making: Together with #2, a way into disaster. Humans must decide.

dronegirl.bsky.social•567 days ago

That's the thing. They don't want an educated youth populous. If they learn to think for themselves then those on power will lose it

numerounochef.bsky.social•567 days ago

Another problem is that a LLM like chatGPT can’t and isn’t designed to answer a question like “does this book contain xyz”. It doesn’t have the ability to “read” the book unless given the entire book as context as part of the query. One big prob with “ai” is misunderstanding it’s use.

wildheart-baby.bsky.social•565 days ago

Yep, it can't decide anything, is X better than Y, it can't make a choice between them.

numerounochef.bsky.social•565 days ago

That’s true but it’s a separate issue. An issue it is similar to is when you ask a LLM for an answer to a math question and it gives the incorrect answer. Bc it’s not actually doing the arithmetic to find the solution.

wildheart-baby.bsky.social•564 days ago

Is it though, the idea is these "AI" projects are seen as able to give you the answer, if it was advertised as a really good auto complete, or search engine, okay, I'd accept that, it isn't, it's being hailed as an intelligence.

numerounochef.bsky.social•564 days ago

Well, a problem is thinking of it as a “search engine” which it isn’t. That’s my point, nobody is doing a great job of explaining what it’s good for or how to use it, in a productive manner , as a tool.

coopersbeckett.com•567 days ago

It's easy "Does the bible contain a description or depiction of a sex act?"

kausikdatta22.bsky.social•567 days ago

And here is what ChatGPT v3.5 has to say on that aspect. The question then is: will the Conservatives apply this new standard of adjudication-by-ChatGPT-AI uniformly across their reading material? 🤔

hyounpark.bsky.social•566 days ago

“She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her... The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.” - pretty straightforward stuff in 2 Samuel

nathanaeledward.bsky.social•567 days ago

Goddamn that is lazy

bistromath.bsky.social•565 days ago

Good news, no reading was involved!

wrygrin.bsky.social•567 days ago

New Challenge: Write novel containing multiple explicit sex acts described in a way that ChatCPT will not recognize.

wovenstrap.bsky.social•567 days ago

I remember Pynchon somewhere making fun of his first book, V., because due to some kind of youthful nervousness he unintentionally made the sex scene incomprehensible. I now wonder if ChatGPT could decipher it.

moosens.bsky.social•567 days ago

Paging @chucktingle.bsky.social …. Or have you already done that?

mattihase.bsky.social•567 days ago

I wonder how tortured euphemisms can get before it starts to count as bdsm.

demisty.bsky.social•567 days ago

Horrible on so many levels.

warrendemcats.bsky.social•567 days ago

The so-called educators did nothing but do dictators' handiwork to ensure they teach the next generations' Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.

A school is a place for kids to learn the world, not another church for Christian Natianalists' indoctrination secret chamber.

daemonaac.bsky.social•567 days ago

*endless headdesk gif

hawkward.bsky.social•567 days ago

wild. handmaid’s tale was on the curriculum for me in high school

nategvo.bsky.social•567 days ago

Holy shit - ChatGPT lies and famously doesn’t know basic definitions of words and they OPERATIONALIZED ITS OUTPUT?!?!??

nategvo.bsky.social•567 days ago

Obviously the originator problems here is the awful law and secondarily unethical and uninformed public officials with lots of power and little oversight but the AI angle on this has so much potential for harm

clara-de-lemon.bsky.social•567 days ago

The United States of America bravely answer this question every day: what if the dumb people were also powerful and with malign intentions?

nategvo.bsky.social•567 days ago

To be fair, lots of other places answer that question too, they just say “that’s pretty stupid” while the US says “hold muh beer, I gots an idea to mess with the queer kids”

panik.bsky.social•567 days ago

The right wing are currently having a race to see who can keep their electorate the most uneducated.

The loser being the people as is pat for course

mistahmojo.bsky.social•567 days ago

Reading this made me even more angry because they really used AI because they're fuckin lazy, even with their own stupid ass fascist takes and methods. Fascism on it's own is scary but when people can literally be lazy about it, that is straight up disturbing

forevernever.bsky.social•567 days ago

In fairness, a defining characteristic of fascism is intellectual laziness.

mistahmojo.bsky.social•567 days ago

Very true!

suddenlygarmo.bsky.social•567 days ago

if they were smart and able to critically engage with content, they wouldn't be fascists

beanieflower.bsky.social•567 days ago

A more cynical way to look at it is that they knew the net they cast would be so incredibly wide as to take in many, many books - which justifies them doing what they want anyway.

thesporkmaster.bsky.social•567 days ago

Might as well bust out the magic 8 ball while they are at it...

amstradsen.bsky.social•564 days ago

Idiots, idiots everywhere

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