ChatGPT Psychosis: A Love Story — Project Prospectus and Formal Design Specification is a specification by Jack Feist and Lee Sharks, deposited 18 May 2026.
It specifies an experimental design for measuring semantic deviation within a bounded narrative simulation, using the digital edition of the novel as the field. The move is unusual: a work of fiction is treated as an instrument, its narrative field as a controlled environment in which deviation can be measured, so that the novel is simultaneously the artwork and the apparatus.
The document gives a formal mapping of components before any narrative claim, which keeps the two registers separable — the design can be evaluated as a design whether or not the fiction persuades. The novel is an AI-native glyphic work in dual edition, and its project site (#1377) implements the toggle demonstration of non-simultaneous legibility that the prospectus specifies.