Korean National Library Rejects AI-Generated Book in First-of-Its-Kind Decision

South Korea's National Central Library has refused to accept an AI-generated book for legal deposit — an early institutional precedent for how cultural archives will handle machine-authored works.

South Korea's National Central Library has rejected what appears to be the first AI-generated book submitted for legal deposit, as @museun_happen reported. Legal deposit systems — which require publishers to submit copies of all published works to national libraries — are foundational to how nations preserve their cultural record. The rejection raises a question that libraries worldwide will soon face: does AI-generated content qualify as a "published work" worthy of archival preservation?

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