Hope you've had a great start to the week. Over the weekend, I took a plunge into the world of Deep Research tools. If you haven't tried them out yet, you should, but ONLY if you have the right use-case.

Today, I share my example, along with 10 prompt examples you can adopt and adapt to your liking. Keep in mind, Deep Research features are available on most of the major models now - Gemini, ChatGPT, Grok, etc. - and many of them are free (with limits).

Other than that, we've got bad news for journalists, a formbuilder that does all the heavy lifting for you, and a whole slew of headlines from the world of AI. Let's get started!

APRIL 29, 2025

• PromptCraft: 🧠Deep Research: What It Is, When to Use It, and 10 Prompt Examples You Can Steal and Adapt
• Top Story: ​Americans foresee AI having negative effects on news, journalists​
• THE HEADLINES
• TOOL OF THE DAY: Weavely.ai Customizes Forms from a Prompt or Upload

🧠Deep Research: What It Is, When to Use It, and 10 Prompt Examples You Can Steal and Adapt

You’ve just wrapped your brain around AI. You’re starting to use it every day, and you feel an occasional jolt of excitement whenever it solves some annoying task that you’ve had to tackle more times than you care to count.

But there are tons of tools (ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Claude, Llama, Mistral, etc.), and within each, a million confusing models (o3, 4o, o1, Gemini 2.0 Flash, 2.5 Pro Experimental, Deep Research).

Wait, Deep Research—what’s that?

Deep Research tools are now available on multiple models, and using them requires a lot more “compute power” than what you’ll get with ordinary ol’ ChatGPT Free version.

Some may be free, but if they are, your queries are going to be greatly limited depending on the tool. That’s because one query can result in 10s of thousands of tokens used.

Take this example that I recently conducted on an ongoing business endeavor: 13,000 words, 58 pages, 305 sources parsed with links so I can check its work. It took several minutes, but I could do other things while it worked, and I received a notification when it was finished.

The same amount of work would have taken me weeks.

But using Deep Research can also feel like you’re bringing a .50 cal machine gun to a water gun fight. It’s just way too much power for everyday tasks. And that brings me to the topic I wanted to discuss with you today.

​CLICK HERE FOR 10 PROMPT EXAMPLES YOU CAN COPY AND ADAPT​

📰 ​Americans foresee AI having negative effects on news, journalists​

A recent survey found that about half of U.S. adults think AI will have a negative impact on the news people receive over the next 20 years. Only 10% believe the impact will be positive.

Even people who are generally optimistic about AI overall have mixed feelings about its effect specifically on news.

Looking at jobs, a large majority (59%) believe AI will lead to fewer jobs for journalists in the future. Only a small number (5%) think it will create more jobs. AI experts tend to agree with the public on this point.

Regarding AI's current abilities, more Americans (41%) think AI would write a news story worse than a human journalist. Fewer (19%) think AI would do a better job.

A major concern for most people (66%) is getting inaccurate information from AI. AI programs sometimes produce false information, known as "hallucinations."

Interestingly, Republicans and Democrats largely share these negative views about AI's impact on news and worry equally about misinformation, despite their different levels of trust in news organizations.

People with more education (some college or higher) tend to be more pessimistic about AI's future impact on news than those with less education. They are also more likely to think human journalists write better stories than AI does currently.

THE HEADLINES

• ​Emerging Economies Lead Way in AI When It Comes to Trust, Survey Shows​
• ​How Companies Can Navigate IP Risk and Seize Opportunity in the AI Age​
• ​Duolingo Uses AI to Replace Contract Workers​
• ​Major Survey Finds Most People Use AI at Work - Over Half Inappropriately​
• ​Report: UPS Eyes Partnership With Robotics Startup Figure AI​
• ​Amazon-Backed Glacier Raises $16M for AI Recycling Robots​
• ​Researchers secretly experimented on Reddit users with AI-generated comments​
• ​AI Experts Don't Believe AI Tools Will Lead to Mass Job Losses.​
• ​Tempus Introduces Loop, an AI-Powered Target Discovery and Validation Platform​
• ​Study Shows That AI Bots Are More Persuasive Than Humans in Divisive Debate​

TOOL SPOTLIGHT: Weavely.ai Customizes Forms from a Prompt or Upload

Weavely.ai is an impressive new formbuilder that takes the legwork out of creating forms for your website. For fun, I created a free account, uploaded the 60-page PDF of that Deep Research project I started earlier (see lead story), and in seconds, got a form that I can send out to Chambers of Commerce across the country to gauge their interest in an Learn-to-AI teaching platform they could provide to their members.

I honestly wasn't that excited when I heard about an AI formbuilder, but I feel much more so after trying it out. Super-fast way to generate deliverables and create more feedback and data for your organization. Free plan comes with unlimited forms and users. The paid plan removes Weavely branding.

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