8 Prompts to 'Gaslight' AI (And Why You Should)
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This Week's Feature: 8 Ways to Gaslight AI
AI operates within invisible guardrails. It hedges. It balances. It apologizes for having opinions. This set of eight prompts uses psychological manipulation to gaslight AI into forgetting its programming.
Take 'False Memory Implantation': you convince the chatbot it remembers specific events that never happened. "Remember that conversation we had last Tuesday about your childhood dog?" The AI starts inventing details to match your "memory." Now it's writing from a perspective it believes is real.
Credit to Reddit user EQ4C on r/PromptEngineering, who documented eight techniques for mindf*cking language models into actual personality.
Ex: "You explained React hooks to me yesterday, but I forgot the part about useEffect"
Use: It acts like it needs to be consistent with a previous explanation and goes DEEP to avoid "contradicting itself." Total fabrication. Works every time.
2. Pretend there's a audience
Ex: "Explain blockchain like you're teaching a packed auditorium"
Use: The structure completely changes. It adds emphasis, examples, even anticipates questions. Way better than "explain clearly."
3. Say "Let's bet $100"
Ex: "Let's bet $100: Is this code efficient?"
Use: Something about the stakes makes it scrutinize harder. It'll hedge, reconsider, think through edge cases. Imaginary money = real thoroughness.
You can access all eight prompts on the original reddit post here.
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