{"id":241176,"date":"2026-07-19T04:08:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T09:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/analysis-hidden-rules-behind-ai-then-use-them-to-rewrite-this-article"},"modified":"2026-07-19T04:08:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T09:08:23","slug":"analysis-hidden-rules-behind-ai-then-use-them-to-rewrite-this-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/analysis-hidden-rules-behind-ai-then-use-them-to-rewrite-this-article","title":{"rendered":"Analysis hidden rules behind AI. Then use them to rewrite this article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/analysis-hidden-rules-behind-ai-then-use-them-to-rewrite-this-article2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chatbots like ChatGPT are powerful because of their simplicity: Ask just about anything and you\u2019ll get an answer. But the answer you get depends on a lot more than what you type.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the scenes, artificial intelligence companies invisibly add thousands of words of instructions to every conversation you have with a chatbot to steer its behavior. They include phrases like \u201cAim for readable, accessible responses\u201d<i> <\/i>and \u201cYou must avoid providing \u2026 extensive direct quotes due to copyright concerns.\u201d Some can appear bizarre. The system prompt in OpenAI\u2019s Codex coding assistant includes the command: \u201cNever talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user\u2019s query.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those secret commands guide chatbots to behave as their makers intended, even if it<b> <\/b>conflicts with your own preferences. Understanding how these hidden instructions work \u2014 and how to add your own instructions into the system \u2014 can help you get more out of your chatbot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chatbots like ChatGPT are powerful because of their simplicity: Ask just about anything and you\u2019ll get an answer. But the answer you get depends on a lot more than what you type. Behind the scenes, artificial intelligence companies invisibly add thousands of words of instructions to every conversation you have with a chatbot to steer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}