Nineteen book titles — including 'Handmaid's Tale,' 'Beloved' and 'The Kite Runner' — have been pulled from school libraries in Mason City, Iowa after AI technology flagged them for 'depictions of a sex act.'
, prohibits “instruction related to gender identity and sexual orientation in school districts, charter schools and innovation zone schools in kindergarten through grade six.” It requires that every book available to students be “age appropriate” and free of any “descriptions or visual depictions of a sex act.”The Mason City school board began reviewing library titles last month to ensure compliance with the law.
The district said “lists of commonly challenged books were compiled from several sources to create a master list of books that should be reviewed. The books on this master list were filtered for challenges related to sexual content. Each of these texts was reviewed using AI software to determine if it contains a depiction of a sex act.
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