Economist podcast on AI partially written with AI

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I asked Mina Lee, a PhD candidate in computer science at Stanford University, to build an "EconoBot", a digital writing buddy, upon which I could call while penning this article...

EconoBot proved to be quite useful, particularly when it was asked to finish a sentence...

When asked to finish an entire paragraph, however, EconoBot's prose was often considerably less coherent and included some "hallucinations", in the parlance