Kyobo rejects suspicious 100,000-book order amid AI copyright fears

Kyobo Book Centre, Korea's largest bookstore operator, has drawn attention for rejecting a suspicious order from an overseas company, amid growing concerns that bulk-ordered books could be used as training data for artificial intelligence. According to a Kyobo Book Center official, the bookstore chain received a request from a foreign company with no prior transaction history to purchase 100,000 books. The buyer proposed purchasing one copy of every book, regardless of subject, instead of specif