A massive government experiment in South Korean to roll out 76 AI-generated textbooks has ended just four months in, after the program proved to be a catastrophe. According to Rest of World, the textbooks first became available when the South Korean school year began last March. Though part of the government’s pitch was that generating textbooks with AI would make the publishing process much faster, textbooks from at least one publisher were significantly delayed. One high school student told RoW that “all our classes were delayed because of technical problems with the textbooks. When it was first announced, South Korea’s then-minister of education, Lee Joo-ho, announced the AI textbooks would be mandatory by law.