There’s nothing to fear about ChatGPT except the fear of not being able to detect it. What is ChatGPT? It was introduced last November and is the ‘talk of the town’. However, at the time of writing there were few if any published studies in major databases describing it. The New York Times recently describes it and the AI brains that make it up as “want(ing) to be alive” and based on “technology that relies on complex neural networks that mimic the way humans use language” (Solis, 2023). The author of this study is an EFL lecturer in charge of two creative writing classes at a major foreign language university in Japan. He analyzed some of the non-fiction submissions from students in the second semester of last year using AI detection tools such as Writer and discovered some alarming results: several of the students had likely used AI to write key critical essays to get top scores. Here, the author describes the results of his analyses of past writing classes and how to best use ChatGPT in future classes to help students write better fiction and non-fiction; the hope is to neither fear nor avoid it.