Cecily Von Ziegesar

Aug 15, 2023 | huewire.com | Lois A. Duncan |John Green |Cecily Von Ziegesar

In the lead-up to the 2023-24 school year, 19 books (including one entire book series) were pulled from shelves and placed in storage by the Mason City Community School District in Mason City, Iowa. What makes this case stand out amid a recent wave of troubling book bans all over the U.S. is that the decision as to whether or not they should be pulled was informed by the outputs of the AI chatbot ChatGPT.