— the school district used artificial intelligence, specifically ChatGPT, to audit books in the library.violated the new state law, prompting Bissinger to speak out.
“This is a great book for high school kids,” Bissinger — who criticized the new law but also the school district’s use of AI for enforcement — told The Inquirer. “This idea that high school students can’t handle anything that’s out of the vanilla mainstream is a joke.” School officials told The Inquirer that media specialists and other administrators would review the 19 flagged books, includingBridgette Exman, the assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction — and a former English teacher — said she previously read the book “for joy” and was rereading it herself following Bissinger’s criticism.along with two other books, National Book Award-winning, would be reinstated in the school district’s catalog.