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Here's the prompt I paste to stop an AI writing tool from stating things it can't actually back up

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I write an AI-economics newsletter and my whole credibility is sourcing, so the default behaviour of these tools, stating plausible things with total confidence and zero provenance, is a real problem for me. Over time I've built a prompt that forces the model to separate what it knows from what it'…

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  1. 2026-08-31 18:16 · r/PromptEngineering
    Here's the prompt I paste to stop an AI writing tool from stating things it can't actually back up

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