How to Fact-Check Jayne’s Baby Bank Using Transcripts and AI

Ever wondered how to test the bold claims made by Jayne’s Baby Bank? You don’t have to take our word for it. Everything we have found is set out, with the original documents, in The Sherlock Dossier. With ChatGPT and a short set of research instructions, anyone can question that evidence in plain English. The same approach works for cutting through hype and misinformation anywhere else, too.

Five steps

1. Open the instructions: ChatGPT-Instructions.txt.
2. Copy the entire text: select all the text on the page and copy it. On a computer, press Ctrl + A, then Ctrl + C. On a phone, press and hold the text and choose the option to copy it.
3. Open ChatGPT: go to chatgpt.com and start a new conversation.
4. Paste the instructions: click or tap the message box and paste the text you copied. On a computer, press Ctrl + V.
5. Send the message: ChatGPT will receive the research instructions and tell you what it can open. Then start asking your questions about Jayne’s Baby Bank.

What the instructions tell ChatGPT

The file is short and readable, so you can see exactly what you are asking ChatGPT to do. In brief, it tells ChatGPT to:

• Go to the dossier first, not to Google, and read the pages and original documents that answer your question.
• Cite direct links to the dossier pages and documents behind every answer, with dates and references.
• Use other sources only afterwards, to check facts, find original documents or look for newer developments.
• Keep things apart: documented facts, official statements, allegations, interpretations and matters still unproven.
• Be exact about official replies, and never exaggerate what an organisation said.
• Never invent quotations, sources, evidence or conclusions, and never treat a missing record as proof that something did not happen.
• Say so when it can’t open something, and ask you to paste the text or upload the document instead of pretending.

What you can ask

• What does the NHS say about Jayne’s Baby Bank?
• What do official records reveal?
• What have councils disclosed through Freedom of Information requests?
• Are there contradictions between her public statements and the documented evidence?
• What has she said about her health, including cancer, and what does the evidence show?
• What qualifications has she claimed, and what do the registers say?
• What does the dossier reveal about the organisation’s history and finances?

To see where an answer comes from, compare it with the dossier itself. Her health claims, for example, are set out in Finding 08, and her qualifications in Finding 06.

Getting good answers

• Ask one thing at a time. Short, specific questions get better answers than long ones.
• Ask for the evidence: “Which dossier page and which document shows that?”
• Ask what is not proven: “What does the evidence not establish?”
• If it can’t open a page, open it yourself, then paste the text or upload the document into the chat.
• Start a new chat and paste the instructions again if the answers drift away from the dossier.

Check her own words

To check a quote, go straight to the source. Our transcript search holds her Facebook posts since 2013 and transcripts of her videos and live streams. Type a word or phrase, such as cancer, registered charity or qualified, to see everything she has said about it, with dates and a backup of each post or video. Video transcripts are made by machine, so they can mishear words: open the recording to check a quote that matters.

Her old Facebook posts are kept in our Facebook archive, and the documents behind our reports are in the document archive.

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