Overseas buyers ordering one copy each of 100,000 Korean books, suspected AI data harvesting
Mathemodel · reddit · 2026-10-18
Korea JoongAng Daily reports that overseas buyers are placing orders for over 100,000 different Korean titles, each ordering just a single copy — a pattern suspected to be bulk data collection by AI companies. Korean publishers worry their books are being harvested for LLM training without authorization or compensation, echoing ongoing global disputes over copyrighted training data.
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