An Iowa school district asked ChatGPT if a list of books contains sex scenes, and banned them if it said yes. We put the system to the test and found a bunch of problems.

• An Iowa school district asked ChatGPT if a list of books "contain a description or depiction of a sex act."
• If the chatbot answered yes, the book was removed from the library.
• Insider put the system to the test and instantly found several problems with it.

In an effort to decide what books to ban from school libraries, an Iowa school district asked ChatGPT whether a list of books contained a description or depiction of an explicit act. When ChatGPT replied that 19 books did indeed contain such scenes, the school district banned 19 books, various news outlets reported this week.