I wrote a novel with ChatGPT. Authors, have no fear, your jobs are safe — but AI will give you great ideas.

• Sergi Arguimbau is a computer programmer at the unicorn startup ManoMano.
• He asked ChatGPT to write a book titled, "This book is made by AI."
• Here's the chatbot's response and how Arguimbau thinks the technology will affect authors.

This is an edited, translated version of an as-told-to essay that originally appeared on February 15, 2023, and is based on a transcribed conversation with Sergi Arguimbau, a 27-year-old computer programmer, about his use of ChatGPT.

I've just published a book. But I didn't write it. ChatGPT, OpenAI's chatbot, did.