DADANG Ari Murtono was initially pessimistic upon receiving a writing offer from Indonesia Tera book publisher in March. At the time, the book publisher in Magelang, Central Java, asked Dadang to do an experiment working on a novel by collaborating with several artificial intelligence (AI) tools, from ChatGPT, Sudowrite, to Bing.

Dadang said he was pessimistic because, every time he put in a sentence in the prompt, ChatGPT always handed out a clic