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Generative AI makes its way to a city hall near you.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Lily Dremale.

A couple weeks back, news broke that a school district in Mason City, Iowa was using

ChatGPT to implement Iowa's ban on books that include descriptions of sex acts.

One book flag was Buzz Bissinger's Classic Friday Night Lights.

The thing is, that book includes no such descriptions, according to Bissinger,

who spoke to a local TV station in Texas.

The banning of any book should be taken with the utmost seriousness.

And what bothered me about Iowa and Mason City was they didn't even read the book.

Although the district reversed course, it's just one example of how more government officials

are using AI at work, leading to policies, including restrictions on tools like ChatGPT.

Todd Feathers covered this in wire.

I asked him about the many ways local government employees are using this tech.

I think the most common use of generative AI that I've heard about it,

it's using generative AI to summarize meetings to create PowerPoint presentations.

But there are a city governments that are exploring more creative ways to use this technology,

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