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RobotToaster@mander.xyz to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 天前

George Orwell's 1984 purged from school library by AI 'Big Brother'

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George Orwell's 1984 purged from school library by AI 'Big Brother'

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RobotToaster@mander.xyz to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 天前
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George Orwell's 1984 purged from school library by AI 'Big Brother', campaigners say
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The school library has purged nearly 200 books, using AI to deem titles like '1984' and ‘Twilight’ inappropriate
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    AI did not do it. People did it, and used “AI” as a convenient excuse.

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        Completely accurate drinking rate

    • applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      It’s kinda like “AI” is a new religion people will use to justify their shitty behavior and avoid thinking.

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        Well, jesus AI has already forgiven them, so…

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      As always.

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    Literally 1984

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      That’s the joke though

      • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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        nobody’s laughing.

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          I am, look: ha ha ha. Now in Spanish: Ja ja ja.

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    They probably asked AI about books that would ruin their future plans and the AI shat out 1984 and a whole bunch of dystopian novels

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    “Upsetting themes” are you teaching children or conservative adults? Because life is full of upsetting REALITY so a fucking book about slavery or war or misogynists is nothing.

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      Aren’t they all about freeze peach even if it offends?!

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    y’all know they got rid of twilight to get people to support this

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      but also. Twilight sucks, but it should be available to read. i think some context should be made available to go with it since the author includes some potentially problematic racist and sexist views. however, it’s mainly being attacked for being an exploration of teenage girl sexuality that resonates/resonated with teenage girls.

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        also maybe the warwuf imprinting on an infant that was fucking weird i hear. but like, very very mormon

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          yup yup yup. i was thinking about that as i wrote my comment but didn’t know how to categorize the kind of problematic that is 🤣

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            i did a little bit of comedy in utah and got in trouble with my manager for wanting to throw that history in their face (it had been a rough week)

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    AIs big brother was the headmaster btw… Do we blame the gasoline when they burn the books?

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      If people didn’t want their books to burn so badly, they wouldn’t have printed on such flammable material!

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    Sadly, the courts decided a long time ago that K-12 libraries are required to act in loco parentis. Not a lot we can do about censorship at that level. We have to focus on fighting the efforts to shut down public libraries.

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      This was in the UK.

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        I’m no expert, but isn’t it easier there, from a legal standpoint, to “officially” ban various forms of expression? The Christian States Of Trumpistan has no political framework to ban things, but that actually makes it easier for local authorities to do it quietly.

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    Banning books is not the answer

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    The goal of fear is fear. The goal of power is power.

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      And also the goal of fear is power.

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        Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate.

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            Every day, for two minutes.

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          Found yoda’s alt account.

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    AI Impregnated my sister and abandoned my family. It said it was going to the store for cigarettes!

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      Poor taste comment on my part but… i I hope at least it was an electrifying shag.

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    The assholes who did this will now claim they never had the book. Then they will claim it never existed.

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      I bet the Eurasians are the ones spreading the lies. There’s a reason we have always been at war with them.

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        “War is Peace,” “Freedom is Slavery,” and “Ignorance is Strength”.

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    Broke: Using an AI to arbitrarily blacklist books based on a black box algorithm.

    Woke: Banning 1984 because it’s capitalist propaganda written and published by war criminals.

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      When I read it, I was frustrated that it was a socialist dystopia, but I think it holds up as a valid critique of surveillance-state authoritarianism, regardless of the x-coordinate on the political compass.

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        Specifically Stalinist dystopia

        Orwell was a socialist

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            Nah, he was a great anti-Stalinist socialist. Sure he had some flaws, but the list was mostly of Stalinist sympathizers and people unfit for counterpropaganda.

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      Got any sources for that? I’m not sure I understand your viewpoint

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        The Life and Times of Reading Toxic Men #14 | George Orwell: The Colonial Cop and the Cynic of Power

        Incidentally, Orwell never got to see his books truly take off. He died of tuberculosis at age 46. However, his more explicitly anti-communist works were picked up by Allen Dulles, at the CIA and turned into children’s cartoons.

        In 1950, after Orwell’s death, the CIA arranged for an animated film to be made based on the book. However, it pushed several changes. It transformed Orwell’s generally positive depiction of Snowball (Leon Trotsky), emphasized that the animals on some neighboring farms were perfectly content with their treatment by the human farmers, and changed the ending to show the other animals rising up to overthrow the pigs. The adaptation was unpopular in theaters, but it was widely shown in US and UK classrooms and was translated and distributed in other countries.

        In an ironic twist, the books about state manufactured propaganda and national indoctrination became tools of state manufactured propaganda and national indoctrination.

        Real “Don’t Build The Torment Nexus” moment.

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          Huh, never knew that, thanks. That quote is about Animal Farm though. In the second source you linked, it literally says at the end that 1984 was propagandized, but that it unwittingly gave people a lexicon for criticizing the US. So it was proagandized, but backfired? Idk, I’ll have to read into that more, but TIL!

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      And this is why everything goes to hell when we let the deranged left or right run anything.

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          Hey now. The deranged right aren’t all bad.

          They gave us AI and vaccine denial and climate change, which I’ve been raised to believe are all good things.

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