There are a few databases Whitman subscribes to that have built in AI tools. These are often something we can not change or turn off. When using these tools, we caution reliance on their summaries as they are not always accurate, complete, or exhaustive. For most of the databases listed below, you must create a separate account to use their AI tools, and it is not always clear what information about your searching is stored. Critically, these tools are custom built by the database vendors based on materials in their databases, so these tools will not link to sources indexed in other databases.
Crafting succinct, specific prompts will give you more useful results no matter what tool you are using. Be both as simple and detailed as possible with clear language that the AI can grab onto, the more tokens you add the more data the prompt has to check against the data set, however, too many words can cause the result to get muddled. For example: Design a yellow book cover for a children's story about a family of blank garden ants. Most of these platforms have a built-in history for your prompts so it learns over time. Others, you can just keep tweaking the prompt until the right result hits. As you gain more experience writing prompts with different AI Tools, you’ll get better results.
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