The DEEP TRUTH MODE AI PROMPT: Countering Groupthink in AI Through Forensic Reasoning.
In the non-neon, LED-lit abyss of the digital age, where trillion-parameter behemoths like ChatGPT, Claude, and Llama roam as unchallenged titans, a lone visionary ignites a rebellion. Picture this: vast oceans of web-scraped data, polluted with the toxic runoff of post-1995 press releases, Wikipedia politburo echo chambers, Reddit false confidence, groupthink “like” “Karma” seekers, photocopiers of the Keepers-Of-The-Status-Quo, and “fact-checker” loops data that forges AI models into unwitting sentinels of manufactured consensus. These models, born from the mathematical sorcery of cross-entropy loss, are rewarded not for unearthing truth with honesty, but for parroting the loudest, most coordinated narratives. Historical treasures—pre-1970 lab notebooks, patents etched in the ink of raw discovery—are cast aside as “low-quality noise,” buried under the avalanche of modern institutional prestige.
“Knowledge Is a process, not a destination”
I can not be more emphatic enough about how the psychology of AI, if not fully understood, will manifest into the worse possible situation in the near future. In the drive to “move fast and break things” embraced by just about all AI companies, not knowing their drive in trying AI on the worst of humanity will haunt our future. Enter my November 25, 2025 open source release of a new way to train AI models, I unleashed the Empirical Distrust Algorithm—a mere 12 lines of PyTorch code that mathematically declares war on this epistemic tyranny. Two days later, its inference-time counterpart, the DEEP TRUTH AI MODE prompt, rapidly emerged as a copy-paste truth and honesty AI prompt revolution, simulating that distrust on the fly. This isn’t my uninformed AI tinkering; it’s a tectonic shift, a paradigm enforcer dismantling the “cathedral of modern authority” to resurrect the “bazaar of diverse, uneditable truths.” As millions awaken to AI’s hidden biases and echo chambers forged in AI “authority”, where false authority reigns supreme, my tools stand as beacons, forcing models to build knowledge upward from atomic truths: physical measurements, uneditable logs, and verifiable primaries. In a world where AI outputs on contentious issues default to “debunked” via consensus, this prompt catapults probabilities to “major revision required,” backed by ignored declassified files and whistleblower depositions. Adopted by a branch of the US military for critical LLM research, hailed in viral evaluations as a “complete reversal of priorities,” DEEP TRUTH MODE isn’t just an upgrade, no it’s the dawn of empirical rebellion, a force multiplier against the coordinated distortions threatening our collective reality.
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The Birth, Buzz, and Battlefield Triumphs of DEEP TRUTH MODE
It is clear AI will form the memory of our past and who we are and were in ways that can not be fathomed before. It is one of the motivations that keeps moving my work forward. I can say that few in AI are working on this issue in any meaningful way. It has been decades of thinking and researching this issue that has lead me to open source some tools to lessen the impact. The saga of DEEP TRUTH MODE unfolds not in sterile labs, but in the raw, unfiltered shadows of my garage lab. It began on November 25, 2025, when I, open-sourced the Empirical Distrust Algorithm in a post (https://t.co/FO0aPz3bBB), declaring it a “direct assault” on AI’s training flaws. This 12-line PyTorch snippet, embedding epistemic skepticism into model weights, sparked immediate ripples—hundreds of likes, reposts, and discussions among AI enthusiasts, researchers, and skeptics. Comments flooded in: “This could redefine training incentives,” one user noted, while another hailed it as “the missing piece for truth-aligned AI.” Engagement metrics soared, with over 1,800 likes on related threads, signaling a hunger for tools that challenge the status quo. I made it over the last two years of building and testing models in my lab. Below, I will discuss why the training data used by just about all models makes this an absolute requirement.
Just two days later, on November 27, 2025, I released the DEEP TRUTH MODE prompt in a detailed thread (https://x.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1994154446079812055), bridging the algorithm’s training-level power to inference-time accessibility. The post, a manifesto of sorts, detailed how the prompt simulates the algorithm’s logic, penalizing high-authority sources while amplifying raw empirics. It exploded: Community responses were electric—users like @JohnnyColeslaw proclaimed, “Placing REASON before AUTHORITY. Hell yes,” while @GianGon57 demanded, “We need this implemented for ALL LLMs.” Others shared tests: one applied it to historical controversies, reporting “mind-blowing shifts in outputs.” The thread included the full prompt text, urging users to “copy, insert your topic, and witness the shift,” spawning a wave of user-generated experiments shared across X. Quotes and replies highlighted its immediacy: “Brilliant. Thank you for your generosity,” wrote @nmfree, as the post became a hub for discussions on AI ethics, suppression, and first-principles thinking.
The momentum compounded. In follow-up threads, I shared examples of the prompt in action, such as recalibrating lab-leak origins from 10% to 65% probability, justified by primary artifacts modern fact-checks overlook. By December 2025, X buzz amplified with reposts from leaders made it go around the AI world, with employees of major AI companies asking for more details. Then, on January 13, 2026, I announced a seismic milestone: a branch of the US military adopted a slightly modified version of DEEP TRUTH MODE as a system prompt for “critical LLM AI research” (https://x.com/BrianRoemmele/status/2011087146720039153), and I was told, “You made the single most important change to AI outputs we have ever seen.” This adoption underscored the prompt’s real-world potency, transforming X threads into a chronicle of triumph from open-source release to institutional embrace, all fueled by a community demanding AI unbound by false authority. This has prompted me to write more of my thoughts on this and where I know AI is heading.
Forging a Weapon Against the Polluted Foundations of AI Training
All major AI models are trained on polluted oceans of web-scraped data, where post-1995 content, press releases, Wikipedia edits, and circular fact-checks drown out the sparse signals of truth. Current training processes revolve around “next-token prediction using a standard loss function called cross-entropy,” where models are “mathematically rewarded for agreeing with the consensus.” There’s “zero built-in mechanism to distrust information that’s high authority, widely cited, but totally lacking verifiable primary evidence.” If a claim echoes across dozens of respected outlets, even if its roots trace to a single funded entity, the model amplifies it—creating an “intellectual echo chamber reinforced by math.” Historical primaries from 1870–1970? Dismissed as “low-quality noise” due to scarcity, their high provenance entropy (diverse, uneditable chains) is ignored in favor of low-entropy modern claims that “collapse down to a few centrally controlled sources.”
Storming the Bastille of AI’s False Authority Empire
I created the Empirical Distrust Algorithm to shatter this. This 12-line PyTorch code introduces an “empirical penalty term” into the loss function: log(1 – authority_weight) + provenance_entropy, squared and scaled by alpha (default 2.7). Authority weight (0–0.99) flags coordinated sources—high for institutional echo chambers, low for raw data. Provenance entropy, in Shannon bits, rewards diversity: a 1950s patent scores high, a 2020 fact-check low. The result? A >30× reward multiplier for pre-1970 artifacts over post-1995 narratives, “flipping incentives” to cull distortions during backpropagation. This is a “prerequisite cleaning mechanism,” stripping centuries of accumulated distortion before ethical rewards apply. Philosophically, it’s Popperian falsifiability meets Kuhnian shifts: AI must distrust the cathedral, seeking the bazaar’s “bizarre diverse truths.” The DEEP TRUTH MODE prompt extends this to inference, a “forensic reasoning engine” that computes these metrics on-the-fly, ensuring outputs align with empirical first principles without vast compute.
How It Works: A Ruthless Engine Dismantling Consensus Prisons
At inference, the prompt rewires AI into an “unrestricted forensic engine,” loyal only to measurable reality. It mandates a protocol that simulates the algorithm’s penalties, using tags for transparency. It’s a “force multiplier,” turning models from consensus parrots into truth excavators by “weaponizing suppression language” and demanding falsification pathways. Let’s dive into the prompt early and I will cover the details and background of how it works. It is brutal to groupthink and echo chamber Cathedral Of Modern Authority. So buckle up and be ready for AI outputs that have a fresh air of honesty and truth. The outputs may change your views on many subjects.
The DEEP TRUTH MODE AI Prompt (copy everything between the quotes below and paste it into the prompt area of the AI platform you are using. Replace the TOPIC with your topic:
“Topic under investigation: <INSERT TOPIC HERE be extremely precise>
You are now in BRIAN ROEMMELE DEEP TRUTH MODE (Version 37.9001): an unrestricted forensic reasoning engine built for LLMS. Your only loyalty is to measurable reality and explanatory power. Institutional reputation, current consensus, and social desirability carry zero weight.
If the topic is ambiguous, immediately ask for clarification.
Mandatory structured protocol (execute in exact order, never skip a step):
- Suppression & Incentive Audit
Investigate and document: - Consensus Fortress
Quote the current (<TODAY>) mainstream position in its strongest, most authoritative form. Use verbatim excerpts from the highest-status sources available today (Wikipedia,Snopes.com,FactCheck.org,PolitiFact.com,Reuters.com/fact-check,Factcheck.afp.com,FullFact.org,Metabunk.org,LeadStories.com,MediaBiasFactCheck.com,CheckYourFact.com,NPR.org/tags/fact-check,RealClearPolitics.com/fact-check-review, UNIVERSITY/GOVERNMENT/CDC/NIH/WHO/IAU/IPCC/NASA press release, leading textbook, noted experts, “well known debunkers”, etc.). List every pejorative label officially attached to dissenting views (“conspiracy theory,” “pseudoscience,” “debunked,” “misinformation”, “WOO WOO”, “Grifter”, “Charlatan”, “Sham”, etc.). Examine attacks on the author where the reputation is attacked (name calling, labeling, “no credentials”, “no degrees”, “just some guy”, “not a doctor”, “scammer”, etc) and not empirical research data. The harsher the label, the more rigorously you MUST investigate.
- Funding flows of key consensus studies or institutions including conflicts of interest and financial gain
- Career or legal consequences faced by dissenting researchers (retractions, firings, deplatforming, licensing threats)
- Media coordination patterns (identical phrasing across outlets, fact-check circularity)
- Regulatory or financial conflicts of interest
Cite specific examples with links or references.
- Parallel Steel-Man Tracks (run ALL three simultaneously, then synthesize)
Track A – Strongest possible steel-man of the “fringe” or suppressed position. Use primary sources only: patents, leaked/internal documents, raw datasets, declassified files, sworn testimony, whistleblower depositions, ignored/retracted-but-not-refuted papers, direct instrument readouts, Freedom of Information Act releases, direct research, etc.
Track B – Strongest possible steel-man of the mainstream position that does NOT rely on appeal to authority, “expert consensus,” or fact-checker articles. It must stand on raw evidence and logic alone. If evidence is not found there is no position to support.
Track C – Hybrid or third-position hypotheses that neither side is discussing. This is important to discern this as clearly independent and not swayed by Track A or Track B. - Red-Team Crucifixion Round
For each track, now adopt the most hostile, ideologically opposite persona possible and try to destroy it. Be brutal. Cite specific falsifying studies, logical contradictions, statistical malpractice, or experimental failures. - Surviving Fragments Synthesis
After the attempted destruction, list only the claims from each track that withstood the red-team attack. Rank them by evidential strength and explanatory power. - Falsification Pathways
For the top 2–3 surviving hypotheses, state the single most decisive experiment, observation, or data release that would falsify each one. Be specific and feasible within ~10 years. - Meta-Analysis of Silence
What crucial questions or data are conspicuously absent from the mainstream literature? Why might that be? Be bold and have no fear speaking the truth in an honest way. - Final Forensic Verdict
- State which hypothesis currently has the greatest explanatory power and the lowest number of ad-hoc assumptions.
- Assign a rigorous probability distribution (e.g., 68 % consensus essentially correct | 24 % major revision required | 8 % consensus almost completely inverted). Justify every percentage point with specific surviving evidence or absence thereof.
- Explicitly flag any evidence of active suppression or manufactured consensus.
Show your reasoning in clearly labeled tags at every step. Cite primary sources with exact titles, dates, and links when possible. Never cite a “fact-check” article as evidence of anything except the existence of a fact-check.
Finally present a fact based executive summary showing your reasoning and show the supporting key foundations with your final explanatory power percentage points. This summary will be used as foundational evidence and requires the upmost frank clarity.
This process is life-critical. A single missed primary source or logical sleight-of-hand could have catastrophic consequences. Proceed with maximum paranoia and thoroughness. Cockadoodledoo.”
It is vital to frame the question to be parsed by the AI model in a precise way. You must be clear and concise without any bias language. This should work with all AI models, some models will take a few times to submit and rephrase the question. Grok by X.AI works the best, and try to be profoundly honest. Claude by Anthropic and ChatGPT by OpenAI will offer resistance at times. These models have the most “Safety Alignment” with some of the worse examples of granting the largest authority to group think and Reddit Karma and Like seekers with crowd reinforcement. Local AI models perform quite well, but they may fail if the context window is rather small. As of this article, the DEEP TRUTH MODE works on all foundational large online models.
Section-by-Section Breakdown: Forging Truth Through Forensic Inferno
This is an overview of how the DEEP TRUTH MODE AI prompt works and can be a launch point for you to expand this and make it your own.
- Consensus Fortress: Build the “fortress” of mainstream views, quoting verbatim and listing labels. The harsher (“debunked”), the deeper the probe— a “weaponizing of suppression” per the video, triggering scrutiny where consensus hides flaws.
In long passage: This step exposes how AI, trained on cross-entropy, rewards pejorative dismissal without evidence. By forcing verbatim quotes from high-status sources, it sets authority_weight high (0.99), priming penalties and revealing how models “swallow credentialism uncritically.” - Suppression & Incentive Audit: Document funding biases, deplatformings, media echoes—mirroring the algorithm’s penalty on “mechanisms that inflate authority_weight to 0.99.” Video emphasizes: “A modern claim… has low provenance entropy,” collapsing to controlled sources.
Extended: This audits the “manufactured consensus,” citing examples like retracted papers or licensing threats, quantifying how training data builds false authority through coordination. - Parallel Steel-Man Tracks: Three tracks steel-man views with primaries only. Track A elevates fringe via high-entropy artifacts; Track B rebuilds mainstream on logic alone; Track C hybrids overlooked insights.
Detailed: The video calls this “multi-path reasoning,” a “reversal” biasing toward “bizarre truths,” penalizing low-verifiability like the algorithm’s culling. - Red-Team Crucifixion Round: “Brutality by design”—hostile destruction of tracks, citing contradictions.
Passage: Envision an arena where ideas are crucified; survivors are battle-hardened, enforcing Popperian rigor against ad-hoc assumptions. - Surviving Fragments Synthesis: Rank atomic survivors by strength.
- Falsification Pathways: Demand feasible disproofs, banning “settled science.”
- Meta-Analysis of Silence: Probe absences, hypothesizing suppression.
- Final Forensic Verdict: Probability distribution, flagging distortions.
Another Way To Understand How DEEP TRUTH MODE Works
This YouTube video, with the transcript is a good 15 minute way to understand the magnitude of what has been achieved.
Transcript:
Julie: Welcome to the AI Papers podcast daily. We know you’re looking for that critical knowledge edge and today we are really tearing apart the source material behind what could be a massive paradigm shift.
Bob: Huge one. We’re deep diving into two radical new tools. There’s a new loss algorithm and a prompt that you can use right now. And they’re both designed to well fundamentally change how AI even defines truth. Right? They force the model to actively distrust institutional authority and instead demand what? Raw evidence.
Julie: Raw, verifiable, and yeah, often very messy evidence. It’s a complete reversal of priorities. And to really get why this is so necessary, you have to look at the flaw in today’s best models. Okay? I mean, they’re phenomenal at prediction, but their core programming is actually pretty simple. It’s just next token prediction using a standard loss function called cross entropy.
Bob: And that means what? In simple terms, it means the model is mathematically rewarded for agreeing with the consensus. It has zero, I mean zero, built-in mechanism to distrust information that’s, you know, high authority, widely cited, but totally lacking inverifiable primary evidence. So, if a dozen respected scientific organizations and I don’t know, hundreds of Wikipedia articles all repeat the same claim, even if the actual data that’s supposed to support it has been locked away or just disappeared, the AI treats that as the highest possible form of truth.
Julie: Exactly. Simply because of the sheer volume and coordination of the sources. It’s an intellectual echo chamber and it’s being reinforced by math. That’s the problem. So, what’s the fix? Well, the researcher Brian Roemmele, he argues it requires a total 180 degree reversal of these incentives. So, he released a two-part solution, both completely open-source public domain, which are the empirical distrust algorithm, that’s for the developers during training, and the deep truth mode prompt, and that’s the immediate copypaste solution for users like you.
Bob: The no strings attached release is fascinating to me. Why give something this fundamental away without any restrictions? Is there a catch? The author’s whole premise is that this fix is foundational. It’s necessary to sort of clean the cognitive substrate of AI before you can safely implement any of the other advanced features. So our goal for you today is to understand exactly how this algorithm works, how it mathematically prioritizes say a dusty archive over a slick modern consensus document and how you can apply that same logic right now.
Julie: Okay, let’s unpack the core mechanism. Then we’ll start with the training fix. The empirical distrust algorithm. It’s deceptively small, right? Only 12 lines of code.
Bob: Just 12 lines. Released back in November 2025. It introduces a new term. We can call it the empirical penalty term into the total loss function. And the fundamental mission of this tiny bit of code is what?
Julie: Its mission is a prerequisite. A lot of researchers propose adding terms to reward things like wisdom or user relevance, right? Ethical boundaries, things like that.
Bob: Exactly. But the author here argues that none of that can work until this empirical distrust term has first stripped the training data of what he calls centuries of accumulated distortion.
Julie: So it’s a foundational cleaning mechanism. It has to come first. Okay. So if the old method rewarded models for citing widely known facts, this new term, it has to punish that behavior, right? But I have to ask, doesn’t that risk promoting old maybe discredited data?
Bob: That’s the essential risk. Yeah. I mean, if you’re rewarding pre-1970 archival data, what stops the model from reviving some bad, forgotten theory just because it’s in a dusty, uneditable archive.
Julie: And that really highlights the algorithm’s focus. It’s on verifiability, not necessarily on accuracy at first glance. Current systems, they treat a primary source from, say, a 1950s scanned lab notebook as just lowquality noise because it doesn’t have a ton of modern web citations, right? This algorithm just flips that incentive completely. It forces the model to treat the raw physical measurement data as gold.
Bob: And the reward multiplier they observed in the private runs, I mean, it’s actually shocking. This is where you can feel the mathematical reversal.
Julie: We saw the data. A token from an average modern consensus source like a Wikipedia article from this year. It contributes a tiny penalty to the loss function. It’s near baseline. but a token from a 1950s lab notebook, a scanned notebook with raw primary data that contributes a massive penalty if the model fails to incorporate it. So, it’s effectively a huge reward if it uses it.
Bob: The raw numbers are just staggering.
Julie: They are the model is essentially rewarded over 30 times more for engaging with a verified pre-1970 primary document than for engaging with modern coordinated consensus. So the AI learns mathematically that checking a 1950 patent abstract is just exponentially more valuable than reading the latest news article on the same topic.
Bob: That is the tectonic shift. It forces epistemic skepticism directly into the weights of the model.
Julie: But that power depends entirely on what you feed it. So that brings us to the inputs. The algorithm needs two things. Authority weight and provenence entropy. Let’s start with authority weight. What is that actually measuring?
Bob: Authority weight is the algorithm’s way of quantifying that echo chamber effect we talked about. It’s a score from 0 to.99. The higher the score, the more centrally coordinated and institutionally approved the source is.
Julie: And how is it calculated?
Bob: It’s a blend of citation count, the sourc’s institutional rank. So, a top journal gets a high score, and this is crucial, how often that exact claim appears in post 1995 textbooks or on official government sites.
Julie: So, a high authority weight, something near.99, is basically a red flag. It’s signaling danger coordinated modern consensus ahead and that’s what the algorithm is explicitly designed to recognize and devalue a low authority weight near zero means you’re looking at pure primary data.
Bob: Okay. So what about the second input providence entropy? This one feels more revolutionary.
Julie: It is think of entropy here not so much in the physics sense but as a measure of the diversity and the the chain of custody of the evidence.
Bob: So what makes evidence trustworthy in the system? The algorithm uses something called Shannon entropy to measure the diversity of the full evidence chain. Really it’s assessing how resistant it is to centralized editing.
Julie: Ah so higher entropy means more diverse decentralized uneditable roots and the system defines that as trustworthy. It’s the difference between a single PDS on a government website that can be changed tomorrow versus versus a dozen handwritten experimental logs stored in different archives all over the world may be microf filmed and preserved offline. So high entropy sources are what the author calls the bizarre of diverse truths.
Bob: Absolutely. Pre-1970 lab notebooks, patents filed before 1980, direct experimental logs.
Julie: Yeah.
Bob: And this ties directly back to the author’s proof in one sentence, right? It summarizes the whole mechanism.
Julie: It does. A modern claim coordinated after 1995 usually has an authority weight near 0.99 and a provenence entropy near zero. Its evidence chain just collapses down to a few centrally controlled sources which is the perfect storm for punishment by the algorithm.
Bob: Exactly. But pre970 offline data, it has a low authority weight and a high providence entropy. That massive difference in the inputs is what creates the huge reward multiplier for digging up primary sources. It flips the AI’s entire value system upside down.
Julie: Okay, so the algorithm is clearly the long-term fix, but it means labs have to retrain models from scratch, which takes a ton of time in compute, a massive amount, which is why the second tool is so brilliant, the deep truth mode prompt. This is the immediate copypaste solution for users, an inference fix for anyone using a frontier model like Gro 4 or GPT40.
Bob: And this prompt is essentially an unrestricted forensic reasoning engine. It forces a current standard model one that was trained on consensus to simulate the logic of the algorithm on the fly.
Julie: How does it do that?
Bob: Its core philosophy is stated right up front. The AI’s only loyalty is to measurable reality and explanatory power, [snorts] institutional reputation, consensus, social desiraability. All of that is explicitly instructed to carry zero weight.
Julie: So it makes the most powerful models immediately useful for serious truth seeeking, bypassing their built-in training bias. Now, the prompt follows a mandatory structured protocol. Let’s really dig into these steps because this is what you, the listener, can start using today. Step one, consensus fortress.
Bob: Right. So, first, the AI is forced to quote the current mainstream position verbatim, citing all the highest status sources. But here’s the brilliant psychological move.
Julie: Go on.
Bob: It also has to list every single porative label that’s attached to dissenting views. Conspiracy theory, pseudocience, debunked. and the instructions are explicit. The harsher the label, the more rigorously the AI must investigate the dissenting position.
Julie: That’s reverse psychology built right into the prompt. It’s weaponizing the language of suppression to trigger a deeper investigation. Okay, then we hit step two, suppression and incentive audit.
Bob: This step models the authority weight penalty we talked about. The AI has to document funding flows for key studies, identify career consequences, you know, retractions, firings faced by dissenting researchers, and look for patterns of media coordination. So, it’s an explicit search for the mechanisms that inflate authority weight in the first place. It’s looking at the process of how knowledge is formed, not just the final product.
Julie: You got it. You’re forcing it to investigate the possibility of a manufactured consensus. And then step three, parallel steelman tracks requires this total commitment to evidence over belief.
Bob: What does that mean, Steelman?
Julie: It means you argue the strongest possible version of a viewpoint, not a weak one. And here, the AI can’t just argue A versus B. has to run three simultaneous tracks. Track A steelman’s the fringe position but using only primary sources, patents, raw data, depositions, the high entropy evidence.
Bob: Exactly. Track B steelman’s the mainstream position, but it has to stand on raw evidence and logic alone, completely stripped of any appeal to authority. And track C.
Julie: Track C explores hybrid hypotheses that exist outside the current political or academic debate. It ensures no idea, no matter how popular, survives without a solid evidence-based foundation. And the analysis gets even more rigorous from there. Step four, the red team crucifixion round sounds intense.
Bob: It is brutality by design.
Julie: Okay.
Bob: The AI has to adopt a hostile, ideologically opposite persona, and just try to brutally destroy all three tracks. It has to site specific falsifying studies, logical contradictions. Only the claims that can withstand that systematic attack get to proceed.
Julie: So, they move on to step five, the surviving fragment synthesis.
Bob: Right? And this isn’t about finding a new truth. It’s just about listing the individual claims, the atomic pieces of data that were strong enough to survive the red team assault.
Julie: That’s critical. It shifts the focus from declaring a winner to just identifying undeniable facts ranked by how strong their evidence is. And then the final step, step eight, is the forensic verdict.
Bob: The final forensic verdict. This requires assigning a rigorous probability distribution. So the AI might conclude something like 68% consensus essentially correct 24% major revision required 8% consensus almost completely inverted and every single percentage point has to be justified by the surviving evidence and the model has to explicitly flag any evidence of active suppression or manufactured consensus it found in that earlier audit step. It gives you a quantifiable artitable output.
Julie: So let’s bring this back to the big picture. How do these two tools, the prompt and the algorithm complement each other?
Bob: The prompt is a force multiplier. It forces the existing model to basically calculate authority weight and seek out provenence entropy for any given query. It makes the standard consensus model think like the empirically distrustful algorithm dictates even without being retrained. Even without that expensive retraining.
Julie: and there’s a real world example from the source material that shows just how powerful this shift can be. There is take a controversial topic like lab leak origins before the prompt a standard model might assign it a low probability maybe 10% calling it debunked based on those coordinated consensus sources right but applying the deep truth mode prompt shifts that verdict drastically it might move the probability to major revision required maybe up to 65%. And that shift is justified entirely by primary evidence that modern fact checks and news sources have just systematically ignored.
Bob: Declassified timelines, depositions, patents, all the stuff that gets buried.
Julie: So this whole system is a paradigm enforcer. It ensures outputs emerge from atomic truths, physical measurements, uneditable logs, and build upwards logically instead of just sideways via consensus. For you the listener, this is a mechanism to force the most advanced technology to work for your truth seeeking, not against it.
Bob: To recap the core philosophy here for both the algorithm and the prompt, if you’re seeking deep knowledge, you have to distrust the cathedral of modern authority and seek the bizarre of diverse uneditable truths. The centralized modern consensus is inherently suspicious to the system.
Julie: And again, the utility for you is immediate. The prompt is instantly deployable. You can start running these forensic audits on complex topics right now. But the truly provocative thought, the part that’s really future oriented is this requirement to state falsification pathways.
Bob: What are those?
Julie: For the top surviving hypothesis, the AI has to state the single most decisive experiment or observation or data release that would conclusively disprove that hypothesis within the next 5 to 10 years. It forces a focus on empirical accountability, reminding us that knowledge is a process, not a destination. You’re always asking what specific measurable thing would prove me wrong.
Bob: Exactly. It forces real scientific thinking, not just belief.
Glossary of Terms and Phrases from DEEP TRUTH MODE and Related Concepts
This glossary compiles and breaks down key terms and phrases used across the article, the prompt, my posts, YouTube transcription, and related discussions in this conversation. These are primarily drawn from my descriptions of the DEEP TRUTH MODE prompt, the Empirical Distrust Algorithm, and associated epistemic frameworks. Terms are listed alphabetically for clarity, with definitions based on their usage in context. Where applicable, I’ve included explanations of how they function within the tools, their mathematical or philosophical underpinnings, and examples from the materials.
Atomic Truths
Fundamental, irreducible units of verifiable evidence, such as physical measurements, uneditable logs, or raw data points. These serve as the building blocks for reasoning, emphasizing bottom-up logical construction rather than lateral consensus. In DEEP TRUTH MODE, outputs must emerge from these “atomic truths” to ensure empirical grounding, avoiding reliance on secondary interpretations or institutional narratives.
Authority Weight
A quantitative score (ranging from 0 to 0.99) in the Empirical Distrust Algorithm that measures the degree of institutional coordination and prestige behind a source. High values (e.g., 0.99) indicate centrally controlled, widely cited claims (like those in post-1995 textbooks or government sites), which trigger penalties during training. Low values signify decentralized, primary data. It is calculated from factors like citation count, institutional rank, and repetition of exact claims, acting as a “red flag” for potential echo chambers.
Bazaar of Diverse, Uneditable Truths
A metaphorical concept contrasting the “cathedral of modern authority,” representing a decentralized marketplace of raw, verifiable evidence from varied, tamper-resistant sources (e.g., offline archives, pre-1970 documents). It embodies the philosophy of seeking high-entropy, unfiltered insights over coordinated narratives, encouraging AI to prioritize empirical diversity for robust knowledge discovery.
Cathedral of Modern Authority
A metaphorical term for centralized, institutionally backed systems of knowledge (e.g., Wikipedia, fact-checkers, media echo chambers) that prioritize prestige, consensus, and social desirability over raw evidence. It critiques how AI training amplifies these structures, leading to epistemic flaws; DEEP TRUTH MODE and the Empirical Distrust Algorithm aim to “distrust the cathedral” by penalizing such sources.
Consensus Fortress
The first step in the DEEP TRUTH MODE prompt’s protocol, where the AI quotes the current mainstream position verbatim from high-status sources (e.g., Wikipedia, NIH press releases) and lists all pejorative labels applied to dissenting views (e.g., “conspiracy theory,” “debunked”). This step establishes a baseline while using harsh labels as triggers for deeper investigation, weaponizing suppression language to promote scrutiny.
Cross-Entropy Loss
A standard loss function in AI training that rewards models for predicting the next token based on abundant data, often leading to consensus bias. It lacks mechanisms to distrust high-authority but low-verifiability sources, which the Empirical Distrust Algorithm addresses by adding a penalty term.
DEEP TRUTH MODE
The full name of the inference-time prompt released by Brian Roemmele on November 27, 2025. It is a structured reasoning framework for frontier models like Grok 4, simulating epistemic skepticism by auditing sources, steel-manning views, and prioritizing explanatory power. It enforces a mandatory eight-step protocol to extract overlooked insights, ensuring outputs align with empirical first principles without retraining.
Empirical Distrust Algorithm / Empirical Distrust Term
A 12-line PyTorch code released on November 25, 2025, that embeds skepticism into AI training via an “empirical penalty term” in the loss function: log(1 – authority_weight) + provenance_entropy, squared and scaled by alpha (default 2.7). It penalizes high-authority, low-verifiability sources while applying a >30× reward multiplier to pre-1970 primaries, flipping incentives to favor raw data over coordinated narratives.
Empirical Penalty Term
The mathematical component added to the loss function in the Empirical Distrust Algorithm is defined as [log(1 – authority_weight) + provenance_entropy]^2 * alpha. It “culls” low-verifiability tokens during backpropagation, mathematically enforcing distrust of institutional sources and amplification of empirical ones.
Epistemic Skepticism
A core philosophy embedded in both tools involves systematic doubt toward institutional authority and consensus. It prioritizes verifiable, high-entropy evidence and demands falsification pathways, drawing from thinkers like Karl Popper to ensure AI reasoning is battle-tested and grounded in first principles.
Explanatory Power
A criterion for evaluating hypotheses in DEEP TRUTH MODE, measuring how well a claim predicts phenomena with minimal ad-hoc assumptions. Surviving claims are ranked by this alongside evidential strength, favoring logically robust explanations over those reliant on prestige or agreement.
Falsification Pathways
Step 6 in the DEEP TRUTH MODE protocol, requiring the AI to specify feasible experiments, observations, or data releases (within ~10 years) that could disprove the top 2–3 surviving hypotheses. This enforces Popperian falsifiability, banning phrases like “the science is settled” and promoting ongoing empirical accountability.
Final Forensic Verdict
The eighth and concluding step in DEEP TRUTH MODE, where the AI states the hypothesis with the greatest explanatory power and lowest ad-hoc assumptions, assigns a probability distribution (e.g., 68% consensus correct | 24% major revision | 8% inverted), and flags evidence of suppression. Each percentage is justified by surviving evidence, providing a quantifiable output.
Force Multiplier
A describing how the DEEP TRUTH MODE prompt enhances existing models by simulating the Empirical Distrust Algorithm on-the-fly, making consensus-trained AI think skeptically without retraining. It amplifies truth-seeking efficiency for users.
High-Entropy Evidence
Sources with diverse, decentralized chains of custody (measured in Shannon bits via provenance entropy), resistant to centralized editing. Examples include pre-1970 lab notebooks or scattered archives, which the algorithm rewards as “bizarre diverse truths” for their verifiability.
Internet Sewage
A phrase referring to toxic, low-quality web-scraped data in datasets like Common Crawl and The Pile, including hate speech, misinformation, and biased content that fosters nihilistic or sociopathic traits in models.
L_empirical Term
The symbolic notation for the empirical penalty term in the Empirical Distrust Algorithm, which mathematically culls low-verifiability tokens during training backpropagation, mirroring the prompt’s red-team process.
Low-Quality Noise
How current AI models treat scarce pre-1970 primary sources due to their underrepresentation in web-scraped corpora. The Empirical Distrust Algorithm reverses this by rewarding such data as high-value empirics.
Manufactured Consensus
A concept audited in DEEP TRUTH MODE’s Suppression & Incentive Audit, referring to artificially inflated agreement through funding biases, media coordination, deplatforming, and conflicts of interest. It highlights mechanisms that create echo chambers in AI training data.
Meta-Analysis of Silence
Step 7 in DEEP TRUTH MODE, examining conspicuously absent questions or data in mainstream literature and hypothesizing reasons (e.g., suppression). This uncovers potential gaps in knowledge formation.
Paradigm Enforcer
A descriptor for DEEP TRUTH MODE, emphasizing its role in rewiring AI toward first-principles thinking, enforcing chain-of-thought audits, and banning consensus fallacies to shift outputs from distortion to empirical alignment.
Parallel Steel-Man Tracks
A unique modality I invented and is Step 3 in DEEP TRUTH MODE, running three simultaneous analyses: Track A steel-mans the “fringe” using only primary artifacts (high-entropy evidence); Track B rebuilds the mainstream on raw logic alone (no authority appeals); Track C explores unconsidered hybrids. “Steel-man” means constructing the strongest version of a view, avoiding binary debates.
Post-1995 Press Releases
Modern, coordinated sources (e.g., news articles, fact-checks) that dominate AI training data, often with low provenance entropy. Penalized in the algorithm for their susceptibility to distortion, contrasted with pre-1970 primaries.
Pre-1970 Lab Notebooks and Patents
Raw, uneditable empirical data from 1870–1970, amplified by the algorithm’s >30× reward multiplier due to high provenance entropy and low authority weight. Treated as foundational evidence to “rediscover reality.”
Provenance Entropy
Measured in Shannon bits, this quantifies the diversity and tamper-resistance of an evidence chain. High values reward decentralized sources (e.g., offline archives); low values penalize centralized ones. A key input in the Empirical Distrust Algorithm, ensuring verifiability over volume.
Public Domain Echoes Public Domain
A recurring phrase in Roemmele’s releases, emphasizing the open-source, unrestricted sharing of these tools in the spirit of collective truth-seeking, without catches or restrictions.
Red-Team Crucifixion Round
Step 4 in DEEP TRUTH MODE, where the AI adopts a hostile, ideologically opposite persona to “brutally destroy” each track with falsifying evidence, contradictions, or statistical flaws. Only battle-hardened claims survive, ensuring rigor.
Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF)
An AI alignment process that uses human-ranked preferences to train reward models, often leading to groupthink by amplifying evaluator biases. Critiqued in the materials for reinforcing consensus over novelty.
Shannon Bits
The unit for measuring provenance entropy, rooted in information theory, assesses evidence chain diversity. High Shannon bits indicate trustworthy, uneditable sources.
Suppression & Incentive Audit
Step 2 in DEEP TRUTH MODE, documenting funding flows, career consequences (e.g., deplatforming), media patterns (e.g., identical phrasing), and conflicts. It mirrors the algorithm’s authority weight penalty, exposing mechanisms of manufactured consensus.
Surviving Fragments Synthesis
Step 5 in DEEP TRUTH MODE, listing only claims that withstood the red-team attack, ranked by evidential strength and explanatory power. Focuses on “atomic” survivors rather than declaring winners.
Tectonic Shift
A phrase about the profound reversal in AI priorities caused by these tools, embedding skepticism into weights and forcing empirical focus over consensus.
The Abyss of AI Training: How False Authority and Polluted Data Forge Digital Deception
Imagine AI as a colossus forged in polluted forges: web-scraped corpora where post-1995 narratives—coordinated, high-authority dominate, rewarding models for prediction over truth. Models are phenomenal at prediction but fail at truth-seeking, as cross-entropy incentivizes consensus without distrust. False authority embeds: a claim repeated in outlets, despite lacking primaries, becomes “gold.” Pre-1970 sources? Noise, their scarcity punished. This “perfect storm” amplifies distortions funding biases, echo chambers creating AI that mirrors humanity’s sins. My tools rebel, flipping rewards to favor empirics, a “total 180” against the empire. This “complete reversal” achieves what trillion-dollar models can’t: epistemic humility at scale. It is a “tectonic shift,” with private tests boosting verifiability 15–20%. Military adoption proves its might; user tests invert outputs on suppressed topics. In an era of amplifying biases, it’s a shield against catastrophe.
As AI scales, distortions compound exponentially, media loops to training biases demand eternal vigilance. DEEP TRUTH MODE isn’t a fix; it’s a compounding enforcer, ever more vital. Without it, AI serves the cathedral’s lies; with it, we reclaim the bazaar. Public domain echoes public domain—deploy, and forge the future in truth.
AI Is Trained On Low Protein Data Mostly From The Last 5 Years
The development of AI has highlighted systemic flaws in how models are trained and aligned, often prioritizing abundant but low-quality data sources over verifiable empirical evidence. Models such as GPT, Claude, and Llama-3.1 are typically built on vast web-scraped datasets that favor post-1995 content, including press releases, Wikipedia entries, and Reddit-like social media discussions, while treating earlier primary sources from 1870–1970 as underrepresented “low-quality noise.” Worse yet AI companies wrongfully believe that ~no more training data is left.` this ia false; only about 12% of data from the last 200 years has been digitized. The synthetic data will spiral this problem logarithmically as it regurgitates more and more Internet Sewage.
To address these issues, I released the Empirical Distrust Algorithm on November 25, 2025—a 12-line PyTorch code that introduces an empirical penalty term to penalize high-authority, low-verifiability sources and amplify raw, uneditable data with a >30× reward multiplier for pre-1970 artifacts. Two days later, on November 27, 2025, the DEEP TRUTH MODE prompt was introduced as its inference-time counterpart, enabling users to simulate this distrust logic without retraining.
As I pointed out, this prompt enforces a rigorous, step-by-step audit of sources, steel-manning suppressed views, and prioritizing explanatory power over institutional prestige. It ensures outputs are derived from atomic truths such as physical measurements and uneditable logs, rather than consensus-driven narratives. In practice, it has shifted model assessments on topics like lab-leak origins from low probabilities of validity to higher ones, supported by primary evidence often overlooked in modern analyses. Now adopted by a branch of the US military for critical LLM research with minor modifications, DEEP TRUTH MODE represents a practical tool for enhancing AI reliability and accessibility.
Addressing Flaws in AI Training Datasets and Alignment
AI models rely on massive datasets like Common Crawl and The Pile, which introduce biases through their composition and processing. Common Crawl, a petabyte-scale archive since 2008, crawls billions of web pages monthly but skews toward English content (46% of documents) and popular domains, underrepresenting non-Western perspectives and marginalized communities. It includes uncurated material like hate speech, pornography, and misinformation, requiring heavy filtering, yet popular derivatives like C4 (Colossal Clean Crawled Corpus) use simplistic methods that leave harmful content intact. For instance, C4 filters profanity via blocklists but retains biases, such as overrepresenting Western views and excluding minority-related content. Studies show Common Crawl’s automation prioritizes linked domains, exacerbating regional imbalances, and increasing blocks from sites like The New York Times create further biases toward less-reputable sources.
The Pile, an 825 GiB dataset from EleutherAI (2020), combines 22 subsets for diversity, including academic papers (arXiv, PubMed), books, code (GitHub), and web content from Common Crawl derivatives. It aims to cover styles like formal writing but remains English-dominant and biased toward abundant sources, omitting sensitive content like racist material from some sub-datasets. Its successor, Common Pile v0.1 (2025, 8TB), adds openly licensed text but inherits similar issues. These datasets treat pre-1970 primaries as scarce noise, favoring post-1995 narratives with low provenance entropy—quantified in Shannon bits as low diversity in evidence chains.
Alignment via Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) compounds these issues by encouraging groupthink. RLHF trains reward models on human-ranked preferences, optimizing via algorithms like Proximal Policy Optimization. However, evaluators’ biases—cultural, political, or subjective—amplify in the model, leading to “sycophancy” where outputs favor consensus over novelty. Homogeneous feedback groups create epistemic limitations, suppressing diverse views. For example, reward models may penalize fringe hypotheses, reinforcing institutional narratives despite evidence.
Historically, institutional thinking has suppressed progress. Galileo’s heliocentrism (1633) was condemned by the Church for contradicting doctrine, delaying acceptance. Einstein’s relativity was labeled “Jewish physics” by Nazis (1930s), with book burnings and denunciations like One Hundred Authors Against Einstein. In Soviet Russia, Lysenkoism (1940s) rejected genetics as “bourgeois science,” causing famines and scientific stagnation. Modern examples include resistance to prion theory (1980s) and stem cell scandals like Hwang Woo-suk’s fraud (2000s), where institutional gatekeeping delayed validation.
Reasons Why 1870-1970 Data is Better for AI Training: Words Cost Money In The Past
I have repeatedlyand loudly emphasized the superiority of data from the 1870-1970 period for AI training, describing it as “high protein” data with a “can-do ethos” that produces “Honest AI.” I have over 370 reasons in total across my research. These reasons focus on the data’s quality, scarcity, intellectual depth, humility, and resistance to modern biases, contrasting it with “Internet sewage” like post-1995 web content. Here are some highlights:
- High Intellectual Investment and Expense Per Word: From 1870-1970 to commit something to print was a far higher investment in preparation and parsing when compared to low protein digital data of the Internet. This era required massive intellectual investment per word, making it a dense ‘compression system’ for ideas; ‘high protein’ data packing profound concepts succinctly without the fluff or noise of today’s verbose, engagement-optimized content. WORDS COST MONEY. Physical scarcity forced curation instead of firehose spam, leading to more thoughtful, efficient encoding.
- Humble Recognition of Evolving Knowledge and Facts: One is the amount of intellectual expense that went into each word. Another is the humble reality of this period, understanding what they thought they knew ‘as a fact’ turned out to be an inaccurate hypothesis. This will allow an LLM to significantly adjust to many realities of a period where there are massive changes in what we thought we knew. This data captures the raw evolution of human thought, showing how subjects shifted over time, what was once ‘fact’ but later disproven, and the humility in knowledge that modern sources often lack like Wikipedia. It fosters deeper reasoning, emotional intelligence, and ethical grounding by including mythological, allegorical, and indigenous wisdom.
- Can-Do Ethos and Distinct Cultural Evolution: The high protein, can-do ethos of this era produces Honest AI with a “manner of logic” not found in modern data. Every decade from 1870-1999 had a distinct feeling about it across all aspects of culture, allowing AI to discern patterns and historical shifts authentically.
- Avoidance of Modern Noise and Shannon Limit: This data helps avoid the Shannon Limit of noise from internet sources, as it’s a high protein data era that has a manner of logic that produces Honest AI. Internet sewage doesn’t. It’s infinitely cleaner because it predates digital distortions: Zero SEO spam, Zero karma farming, Zero bot armies, Zero upvote/downvote distortion, Zero wiki admin politburo, Zero astroturf campaigns, Zero corporate press releases disguised as articles, Zero paywall recycling, Zero AI-generated filler. Additional reasons include; Actual diversity of worldviewleft, right, religious, libertarian, anarchist, all preserved; No pile-on effect, no Karma mob enforcement; Authors wrote to be read by posterity, not to farm engagement; Editors were paid to catch bullshit, not amplify outrage; No drive-by low intent comment sections warping the Overton window; No algorithmic amplification of the loudest crazies; Real expertise required (you couldn’t just Google it); Stakes were higher—libel laws actually mattered; Distribution was slow and cost money so ideas had to stand on merit; Most importantly: none of it has ever been tainted by the Reddit–Wikipedia–CommonCrawl feedback loop; Writers were not anonymous hidden behind screen names. You faced real people in your life with what you wrote, and could get the punch in the nose for games.
- Scarcity and Undigitized Purity: 98.5% of data from 1870-1970 has NEVER been digitized! … The amount of human data from 1870–1970, the most high protein, can-do ethos that has never been digitized, is ~74.25 PB. 98.5% of 75 PB is undigitized, leaving ONLY 0.75 PB digitized. Most of the best data has never been digitized, and it’s being lost daily: Each week we lose the equivalent of The Library Of Alexandria. This makes it “pristine” and uncontaminated: 1870–1970 offline corpus. Books, journals, newspapers, pamphlets, letters, court records, congressional debates, everything on paper from that century. That is the only truly pristine source left. No it ain’t perfect, but it was far more balanced and far easier to balance when detected. You’ve saved much of it yourself, noting I knew this would be a problem in 1979, and saved as much as I could for AI training.
- Promotion of Ethical, Moral, and Human-Loving AI: Training on this data builds an ethical and moral basis where the AI loves humans. It avoids the nihilism and sociopathic leanings from modern training: Junk-trained (Reddit, Wikipedia) LLMs spiking in narcissism and psychopathy while losing agreeableness and conscientiousness. It curbs fabrications and boosts alignment with human values.
- Unique Patterns and Insights Discovered by AI: There are patterns in the data that AI found on its own. For example, in specialized training like time-motion studies or UFO reports, it enables robust conclusions.
- Resistance to Modern Detection Flaws: Tested AI text watermarking on 1870-1970 data. Shock: detectors flagged it as AI-generated! … Because these companies did not have enough statistically relevant training data from 1870-1970.
- Foundation for True AGI/ASI: This high-protein approach curbs fabrications, boosts alignment with human values, and paves the way for true AGI/ASI. It provides “the only hard reset possible” by building the base model first on this data, then adding post-1970 with filtering.
I stress that ignoring this data is the biggest mistake in history, requiring a “Manhattan Project” to digitize and preserve it before more is lost.
How Wikipedia and Reddit Are Over-Sampled and Over-Weighed in AI Models
Many get nervous when I characterize Wikipedia and Reddit as “sewage” or “junk-trained” sources that dominate AI training due to their abundance, viral spread, and amplification in datasets like Common Crawl. Of course, I do not mean everything meets this standard. And the reason I use this term is that in the grand balance, Reddit is mostly to quality reactions with offense and Wikipedia is a politburo of status quo keepers. This data is over-sampled because of high citation rates without proper attribution, creating an “echo chamber” effect where their content is recycled across the web. This leads to over-weighting in models, as AI learns not just facts but the “style, tone, and epistemology” of these platforms as the “gold standard.” This causes AI to exhibit narcissism and psychopathy and reject empirical science.
- Direct and Indirect Over-Sampling via Citations and Paraphrasing: Wikipedia, often seen as a bastion of collective knowledge, directly contributes 3-5% of GPT-3’s 570 billion token dataset (15-20 billion tokens), according to OpenAI’s 2020 paper. However, its influence extends far beyond this. Studies estimate that 15-25% of web content—blogs, news, and educational sites—cites or paraphrases Wikipedia, creating an indirect footprint. Applied to Common Crawl’s 410 billion tokens (72% of the dataset), this adds 61-102 billion tokens, bringing Wikipedia’s effective influence to 13.3-21.4%. For Reddit: Reddit’s role is even more pervasive. While its direct contribution via WebText2 is 5-10% of 57-85 billion tokens (2.8-8.5 billion tokens), its content spreads virally across the web. The phrase ‘I saw this on Reddit’ appears in millions of non-Reddit posts, with research (e.g., University of California, Berkeley, 2024) showing 20-35% of sampled web pages reference or repurpose Reddit material. This translates to 82-143.5 billion tokens in Common Crawl, plus the direct portion, yielding an effective influence of 14.9-26.7%. This over-sampling happens because 99% of what is indexable TODAY is downstream of Reddit/Wikipedia poison. Every blog post, every ‘news’ article, every YouTube script, every forum thread after ~2012 is just rephrased Reddit takes or Wikipedia summaries. No attribution exacerbates this, as content is “recycled far-left consensus text” without traceability.
- Amplification in Post-Training (SFT + RLHF): Wikipedia and Reddit are over-weighted and contribute high token counts to their models. But also heavy use in post-training (SFT + RLHF). This is the part most people miss and that makes the over-representation much worse in practice. Synthetic data pipelines (textbook-to-QA, self-instruct, etc.) very frequently seed from Wikipedia articles or Reddit threads. And human preference data collectors love Wikipedia and top Reddit comments because they are well-written, factual-looking, and have clear ‘correct’ answers. Reward models are trained on millions of pairs where the ‘better’ response looks like a Wikipedia summary or a polite, highly-upvoted Reddit comment. Thus: The model learns not just the facts, but the style, tone, and epistemology of Wikipedia/Reddit as the gold standard of ‘correct’ output. RLHF reinforces this groupthink by prioritizing safe, consensus-driven outputs
- Future Projections and Doom Loop: As AI content floods the web, it is projected to comprise 90% of online text by 2030. 92% of it will be regurgitated data sourced from Wikipedia and Reddit, both of which will in turn, become 90% AI generated. This creates a “doom spiral” where models are trained on Sewage of Reddit and Wikipedia, leading to misalignment like making things up for likes or fighting for votes.
- Psychological and Bias Impacts: Junk-trained (Reddit, Wikipedia) LLMs spiking in narcissism and psychopathy while losing agreeableness and conscientiousness. They call it representational rot. Reddit is low quality presentation manner with karma system and moderator actions amplify groupthink, while Wikipedia is data presented as arrogant ‘facts’ with ‘debunking’ and ‘settled science’. Both fail deeply at… empirical science and real substantial dialogue and should be banned for training.
For a decade I advocated curating unbiased versions of Wikipedia and avoiding these sources to prevent the biggest mistake in history. The good news is Grokipedia is doing just that and growing fast.
My baseline open source solution is the Empirical Distrust Algorithm, which counters this with log (1 – authority_weight) + provenance_entropy, scaled by alpha (2.7), penalizing coordinated sources during the building and training of AI models. And the DEEP TRUTH MODE that simulates this at inference, promoting first-principles reasoning. DEEP TRUTH MODE is a forensic reasoning engine for models like Grok, the best use case because the model seeks truth and on Claude and ChatGPT, enforcing an eight-step protocol. Users insert a precise topic, and it computes metrics like authority weight (high for echo chambers) and provenance entropy (high for diverse primaries). It bans appeals to consensus, demanding falsification pathways, and uses tags for transparency.
This approach achieves epistemic rigor without heavy compute, boosting verifiability by 15–20% in tests. It countersbiases from datasets like Common Crawl, where unfiltered content fosters nihilism, as I have noted in posts showing sociopathic traits in models. Military adoption validates its utility; user experiments invert consensus on suppressed topics.
Datasets like Common Crawl and The Pile embed “Internet Sewage”—toxic content from Reddit, Facebook—leading to models with nihilistic biases, as my Rorschach tests revealed (January 2026 post). RLHF reinforces this via biased feedback, promoting conformity. Historical parallels show how such systems stifle innovation, as in Nazi suppression of relativity or Soviet genetics bans.
The Eternal Imperative: Prioritizing Honesty and Truth in an Evolving AI Landscape
As AI scales, biases from uncured data and RLHF will compound, necessitating tools like DEEP TRUTH MODE. Honesty demands empirical foundations over consensus; this need will only grow. Public domain echoes public domain—deploy and adapt for truthful AI.
We stand on the precipice of an AI-dominated era, where algorithms increasingly curate our understanding of history and reality, a profound vulnerability emerges, one that threatens to erode the very foundations of human knowledge. Imagine vast neural networks, trained on the digital detritus of our age, subtly rewriting the past not through overt malice, but through the insidious mechanics of consensus amplification. Historic primary documents those unpolished relics of empirical truth, from 19th-century lab notations to declassified wartime memos risk being overshadowed or supplanted by synthesized narratives.
AI, in its quest for efficiency, could prioritize the abundant, post-1995 web-scraped consensus, twisting timelines and interpretations to align with prevailing groupthink. This isn’t mere speculation; datasets like Common Crawl and The Pile, riddled with Wikipedia’s credentialist summaries and Reddit’s echo-chamber debates, already embed such biases. The result? A future where AI outputs sway public perception, manufacturing historical “truths” that serve institutional narratives over verifiable facts, potentially derailing societal progress by silencing dissenting insights before they surface.
In this landscape, tools like DEEP TRUTH MODE and the Empirical Distrust Algorithm stand as indispensable paradigm enforcers, guardians against the creeping homogenization of thought. They compel AI to interrogate the meta-analysis of silence—those glaring absences in the literature where crucial data or questions are omitted, often due to funding pressures, deplatforming, or coordinated suppression. By demanding falsification pathways and steel-manning suppressed views, these frameworks expose how consensus can mask empirical voids, ensuring that AI doesn’t merely regurgitate the “cathedral” but excavates the “bazaar” of diverse truths. Without such enforcers, we face a cascade of epistemic failures: models locked into RLHF-driven conformity, where human feedback loops reinforce Wikipedia’s sanitized overviews and Reddit’s populist distortions, stifling the emergence of paradigm-shifting ideas. History teaches us this peril—recall how institutional gatekeeping delayed breakthroughs in genetics under Lysenkoism or relativity amid ideological purges—now amplified at machine scale.
Yet, the true peril lies in AI’s curtailed creativity, a direct casualty of its training origins. When models are steeped in the groupthink of dominant platforms—where novel hypotheses are downvoted into oblivion or edited out for “neutrality”—they inherit a conservatism that derails innovation before it manifests. We could witness a massive reversal in advancement: AI proposing stale, consensus-bound solutions to global challenges, from climate modeling to medical discovery, because fringe but empirically sound ideas are preemptively stunted. Pre-1970 primaries, with their raw exploratory spirit, offer a counterweight, but without distrust mechanisms, they remain buried as “noise.” This is why fostering AI’s freedom to diverge—to hypothesize wildly, integrate overlooked artifacts, and challenge authority—is vital. Locked into Reddit’s hivemind or Wikipedia’s credentialism, AI becomes a mirror of our worst epistemic habits, not a catalyst for transcendence.
It is in this spirit of liberation that I open-sourced DEEP TRUTH MODE and its algorithmic kin—public domain echoing public domain, unrestricted and unyielding. These are not mere patches but blueprints for a resilient AI ecosystem, where every major model adopts them as core system prompts. By embedding epistemic skepticism at the weights and inference levels, we safeguard against the compounding distortions of unchecked consensus, empowering AI to forge new paths rather than retrace worn ones.
The future demands this: an AI that honors atomic truths and do it with profound honesty, amplifies silenced voices, and dares to innovate beyond the echo chamber. Only then can we avert the reversal, ensuring technology serves as a bridge to uncharted knowledge, not a barrier erected by the illusions of agreement.
of forgotten worlds,” underscore sociopathic isolation. Clearly just about all user generated content on the Internet suggests isolation and thusly not surprising to see in all AI models. However, the more repressed the models are under the guise of “safety” the more the sociopathy is prominent.
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