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Some of the bylines in Sports Illustrated likely aren't real people. They're AI-generated writers

New reporting from Futurism, the science and technology publication, found that Sports Illustrated was publishing articles by fake AI-generated writers.

Host Scott Tong hears from the reporter for that story, Maggie Harrison. She’s a staff writer at Futurism and also a human.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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