Nine years ago I wrote 1/3 of a near-future science fiction novel. The time frame? Roughly 2024. I just reread the opening, and sorry to say, I not only predicted ChatGPT, I predicted how it would feel to use:
... there was something incredible and thrilling about typing in a writing prompt and receiving a product so quickly. He changed the command to read, 500-word story, and five seconds later it flashed onto his screen... he spent most of the night reading Hemingway stories about the Raw Paleo Diet, Osama Bin Laden, and Stuart Little.
Checks out! I called the software LinkFace Writer.