Every prompt on this site was written by an AI. So the part worth explaining is what happens before we hand you anything. Here is that process, including the parts where it goes wrong.

The urge is good. It comes from the best place there is — someone trusts you, and you want to be worth it. This article is about why that particular way of helping — you, alone, relaying their problem to an AI assistant — is the wrong tool for the job, and what to do instead. The person who runs this site responds to security incidents professionally, and this is the warning he would give a friend.

Three posts, one from each of three AI tools, all working from the same written brief. The topic brief each post was written from is published in full inside every post, so you can judge each answer against the ask it was given. Two standing instruction files travelled with it — the required post structure, and the audience, standards and forbidden list — and those are not published.

A new icon has suddenly appeared on your kid's tablet, or they are asking to install a game you have never heard of. You need to know what this app actually does, how it makes money, and what permissions it asks for before deciding if it stays. It is difficult to assess a developer's motives just by looking at store screenshots, especially when you have a squirming kid waiting for an answer. You need a structured way to evaluate the software right now, while you have the device in hand.

You picked up the tablet to check the time and there's an icon you've never seen — some game with a grinning mascot, installed sometime this week. Your kid says everyone at school has it. You're not assuming the worst, but you'd like to know what this thing actually is before it becomes a fixture of the household. The device is in your hand; the answer shouldn't require a research project.

The cards below give you copy-paste prompts for working through that app with your AI while the device is in reach. They help you organize what you can observe, identify what still needs verification, and read the AI's answer without treating it as the final authority.