AI Without Prompting: Tricks to Force AI to Behave in Investigations
Most journalists lose the fight with AI before it begins, by writing the prompt themselves. This session flips the relationship: instead of telling the model what to do, you make the model write its own analytical prompt — and then execute it. The result is sharper, less hallucinated, and tied to the structure of the document rather than your assumptions about it.
You will learn Henk’s so-called Prewash Method that strips loaded framing out of investigative queries. By the end, you will have a repeatable workflow you can apply to council papers, court filings, leaked documents, corporate filings — anything text-based.
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Henk van Ess
Henk van Ess is an investigator, tool builder, and trainer with two decades in online research and OSINT — and one of the first to integrate AI into investigative methods that hold up under scrutiny.
- 26 June 2026 14.40–15.40
Location: LG02