Bibliothekar war verblüfft, nachdem die Schule mithilfe von KI 200 Bücher aus den Regalen entfernt hatte, darunter „Orwells 1984“ und „Twilight“.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/librarian-gobsmacked-school-ai-remove-books-5HjdWsc_2/
Bibliothekar war verblüfft, nachdem die Schule mithilfe von KI 200 Bücher aus den Regalen entfernt hatte, darunter „Orwells 1984“ und „Twilight“.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/librarian-gobsmacked-school-ai-remove-books-5HjdWsc_2/
33 Kommentare
Please don’t tell the right-wing American school boards about this. They love to run their candidacy platform on removing woke books.
They don’t have to burn the books, they just remove them.
Just casual britain, steamrolling to mass surveillance and „Do you have a breathing loicense?“
Sound like something the Ministry of Truth would salivate over.
Why does it seem like AI is not being used to make humanity better or push us into the future?
1984 is always one of the first to go. Funny, that.
I mean, of course they went after 1984 first. This is very worrying.
On the other hand, it could potentially rid the world of Twilight, soooo…
Some of the „banned“ books:
* The Song of Achilles (Madeline Miller)
* Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
* The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
* Dune:The Graphic Novel (Frank Herbert & Brian Herbert)
* American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
* Good Omens (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman)
* 1984 Graphic Novel (Matyáš Namai & George Orwell)
* Batman:Year One (Frank Miller)
* Men Who Hate Women:the extremism no-one is talking about (Laura Bates)
* Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Reni Eddo-Lodge)
* The Trans Guide to Mental Health and Wellbeing (Dr Katy Lees)
* We Should All Be Feminists (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
* The Book of Non-Binary Joy (Ben Pechey)
* Freddie Mercury: The Definitive Biography (Lesley-Ann Jones)
* War and Peace:My Story (Ricky Hatton)
* Interview With a Vampire (Anne Rice)
* Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
* If It Bleeds (Stephen King)
* A Song of Ice and Fire saga (George R. R. Martin)
* [Manga] Chainsaw Man series (Tatsuki Fujimoto)
* [Manga] Death Note series (Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata)
* [Manga] Demon Slayer series (Koyoharu Gotouge)
* [Manga] Fairy Tail (Hiro Mashima)
* [Manga] Jujutsu Kaisen (Gege Akutami)
Bullshit. This is just more of the same control by the ruling elite
Definitely get rid of 1984, it’s the biggest warning against the right wing.
These type of article are a fantastic way to decide which books to buy btw. I think I have bought 50+ books in the last 5 years based entirely on them being removed from libraries. If someone is telling you not to read something, read it.
Coming to a town near you soon, book burnings. You can transport yourself back to a time when burning books was something they did to suppress knowledge to keep the population under control. This is no different but you can feel like you actually went back in time.
They allowed a program to tell them what to think.
using ai to decide which books to ban is peak 2026. the whole point of having a librarian is that a human with actual judgment makes these calls. an algorithm doesnt understand context, it just pattern matches on keywords and flags anything that sounds remotely edgy. 1984 getting removed by an ai filter is the kind of irony that writes itself honestly
What was the prompt? Give me a list of 200 books that gives GOP the tummy troubles”
Why are schools restricting access to knowledge.
Gee, I wonder why all critical thinking skills are dead today…
These books are probably the only reason why you’d read in the first place.
Ironic how they are removing all the books that told us that they would remove all the books….
AI removes 1984 from shelves. The book was a warning, not a manual.
OK, I’ll bite. Why did they need „AI“ to help them ban books? I’m not weighing in on book bans, I just want to know how the energy and expense of AI is somehow justified for what is a trivial task of finding books with the seven dirty words or sex themes. I mean, if these are conservative Christians banning liberal books, certainly they already have a list of books they hate.
Britain, y’all do not want to go down the same road we are going down in the US right now. Make some noise, be a problem, don’t let them do this shit because if you let it slide you WILL end up like we have. Don’t just complain, make some calls.
Retaliate and remove the bible. Quote the various lewd and “naughty” passages in it. They want to ban all the “dirty” books, ok then lets ban them all. What a bunch of losers at that school.
Gimme the full list so I can read them all.
I love that word ‚gobsmacked‘ we don’t use it enough.
I’m more concerned that the school is so far behind in tech that they are still using CRT’s
Do these asshats not realize that ban lists become spotlights for books to definitely read?
They still haven’t identified the school, though.
I would be interested in knowing which it was.
And having AI determine the criteria upon which a salaried staff expert objected and was then overruled, reported and suspended… wow… that’s gonna be one hell of a tribunal.
I think I’d bet at least £500,000 is about to change hands, away from the school, after years of wrangling about it.
Libraries with physical collections are going to become more important than ever as a reality backstock. If everything we have is digitized then we’ll have no way to prove whether it’s been changed. Old books are the Touchstone.
Yeah, the AI part is 100% just an excuse.
Only a librarian is going to use a word like gobsmacked and will wait at least a decade for the opportunity.
But Lolita and Leviticus are still on the shelves. Curious.
Anything that results in banning 1984 or Fahrenheit 451 should immediately be considered invalid. Not that almost any books should be banned, but those two are about as obvious as it gets.
Literally 1984!