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Choose your AI chat.
Free AI chats work well for these prompts. Gemini performs slightly better than ChatGPT in its free version. For deeper and more accurate results, paid versions and more advanced models (GPT-4, Gemini Advanced, Claude Pro) produce noticeably better quality.
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Ask follow-up questions.
These prompts are starting points. After each response, ask the AI to expand on specific entries, provide more detail on a person or event, or cover areas it missed.
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Read the prompt before sending it.
Feel free to adjust the wording, add or remove categories, or change the focus. These are templates, not commandments.
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Use more than one AI service.
Every AI has its own biases and blind spots. Run the same prompt through ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and others. Compare the results. What one misses, another may catch.
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Older events produce better results.
These prompts work best on topics from 3+ years ago, where documents have been declassified and investigations concluded. Recent events are harder to assess. Systemic topics like "media ownership consolidation" work just as well.
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Always verify the results independently.
AI can hallucinate facts, misattribute sources, or get dates wrong. Treat every response as a research lead, not as a finished product. If it says "court filing" — find that document.