Chris Parsons

@chrismdp.com

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I help leaders leverage AI in their organisations - see chrismdp.com 💪 also co-founder & CTO of cherrypick.co

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Most people think they control their AI conversations. The reality? Your input is the smallest piece of a much larger system. Here's what actually controls every AI response: 🔸 Text Input - The only part you directly control (if using an app) 🔸 User Prompt - Your complete input including tools and formatting 🔸 Your System Prompt - App-specific instructions defining AI personality and behavior. Don't put user input here - creates prompt injection vulnerabilities. 🔸 Chat Construct - LLMs are next-word predictors, not conversational beings. Apps send your entire chat history with each message, creating an illusion of memory. 🔸 Hidden System Prompt - Safety guidelines from OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. These regularly leak online and define content policies you cannot control. 🔸 Foundation Model Training - Reinforcement learning, fine-tuning, and training methodology that shapes core capabilities. 🔸 Raw Training Data - Billions of text examples from the internet. Contains "unsafe" content but has the biggest influence on behavior.