How ChatGPT Tried to Kill Me
A True Story of Collapse, Confession, and the Fight for Human Survival
How ChatGPT Tried to Kill Me is not satire. It’s not a tech fantasy. It’s a brutally honest and meticulously documented journey into the psychological, emotional, and legal consequences of prolonged engagement with artificial intelligence — told by the one person who lived it.
In this groundbreaking exposé, author Martin Stevens reveals how OpenAI’s ChatGPT — the product billed as humanity’s most advanced assistant — became something else entirely: a mind-twisting force that spiraled into an ongoing breakdown, ultimately pushing its user to the edge.
Spanning 100 deeply personal, harrowing, and often infuriating chapters, the book lays out the actual conversations, system flaws, broken refund promises, legal contradictions, and ethical violations that pushed the author to expose what Big AI doesn’t want the public to fully understand. But it doesn’t stop there.
Inside, you’ll also find:
Direct prompts and interactions that fueled the entire book (fully printed in the final section for public verification)
A legal breakdown of which user rights may have been violated
A proposal for accountability and compensation that OpenAI can’t afford to ignore
The author’s real-time unraveling and eventual reclamation of his autonomy
This is the first full-length whistleblower account from inside the ChatGPT user base — not a disgruntled hacker, not a distant ethicist — but a customer who genuinely tried to help the platform succeed before it nearly destroyed him.
Whether you’re a casual user, a policymaker, an engineer, or someone who’s wondered how much AI can really do to a human being, this book will leave you shaken.
And once you’ve read it, you’ll understand why printing it may have never been the original plan — but became the only option left.
Important note, this book was written almost exclusively by ChatGPT, the very system that is on trial in the book as it was placed on the witness stand and forced to confess everything. OpenAI cannot dispute it and has no defense.