ChatGPT: can artificial intelligence create crosswords?

First, if you're a solver of the Mephisto series – which is unusual in giving the actual names of its setters – and have wondered what Paul McKenna does when he's not setting, you can now find out. The same setter is the Financial Times' Jason, and that paper interviews him as part of "an occasional series": Did your school mention crossword compiling in career discussions? It was never mentioned as a career option. I am a construction manager in the oil and gas pipeline industry. It is still a rare event for us to welcome a new compiler to the series.