How can an AI turn scattered sources into a useful result without making facts up?
Start with the exact claims the outcome needs, then gather selectively from the strongest available sources. Selective Intelligence records provenance, weighs authority and recency, separates fact from inference and creative completion, and refuses to synthesize conflicting details into a claim that no source supports.
Signals that this is the problem
- Several sources disagree, appear stale, or may describe similarly named entities.
- A polished answer contains facts that cannot be traced back to a source.
- Current prices, policies, versions, limits, availability, or public status may have changed.
- The task needs a useful synthesis, not a dump of every search result.
What Selective Intelligence does
- Define the subject, destination, required claims, and consequences of being wrong.
- Resolve identity before combining sources and prefer authoritative first-party evidence.
- Gather only what fills a mapped need, resolves a conflict, or changes confidence.
- Classify claims as confirmed, inferred, created, unknown, or conflicted with provenance and date.
- Revalidate volatile facts and test whether the final result remains useful without unsupported specificity.
What proves improvement
- Material claims link to sources with adequate authority, recency, and specificity.
- Conflicts are resolved by stronger evidence or disclosed instead of blended together.
- No public statement outruns the evidence, and citations support the claim placed next to them.
Boundary: More sources do not automatically mean more truth. Selective Intelligence does not infer consent, ownership, credentials, legal status, guarantees, prices, or sensitive facts merely because several weak signals resemble them.
Try this exact task
Install the public plugin, then paste this into ChatGPT or Codex with the work you want fixed:
Selective Intelligence: research this from current authoritative sources, reconcile conflicts, keep facts separate from inference, and show what remains unknown.
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