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Published about 2 months ago • 4 min read

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🕹️Cheat Codes for AI

It's time to give you all of the secrets.

👋 Hey AI partners.

I don't like when people withhold certain tips or "secrets" that can help others succeed. This can be for any facet of life, work or creativeness.

Well, I'm going to start sharing a ton.

And because you're apart of this newsletter, you'll be apart of it.

By the way, if you haven't received many of these newsletters that's because admittedly, I haven't sent many (that's about to change, too).

My whole focus has been on my YouTube channel, but I understand that sometimes you may not be able to watch videos. Or maybe it's more convenient to read a blog post or a newsletter like this on your phone.

Because of that you may be missing out on some great discoveries.

So I decided to level this up and send these out more frequently.

BTW: I'll NEVER spam you or share your email with anyone else. I take that very seriously.

🕹️ Cheat Codes

What are Cheat Codes?
These are also known as hidden tokens, meta tokens, etc. Use these at the start of your AI images or AI video for some incredible levels of uniqueness and realism.

There are also extremely helpful "cheat codes" for AI video. But we'll dive more into AI video hacks next issue.

Get started here

If you take a look at the above image, you'll notice specific cheat codes that correspond to to the images shown. I highly recommend trying some of them in the very beginning of your prompt.

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Insane levels of realism

Secret token Midjourney doesn't want you to know about ⬇️

stills archive, disney .com
stills archive, frozen, disney .com

Using "still archive" creates an unbelievable image, mirroring insane levels of cinematic realism based on the movie/TV studio name you use. For example:

  • Disney
  • Paramount Pictures
  • HBO
  • Columbia Pictures
  • Sony
  • Universal
  • Lionsgate

Tip

When you reference a movie studio, make sure you enter a space between the studio name and the dot come.
​For example: ​
stills archive, universal .com
stills archive, the avengers, disney .com

Cheat Codes

  • paparazzi candid shot
  • fujifilm Pro400H
  • instagram.export
  • fashion_week_outtake
  • leica_RAW_STACK
  • SOOC_JPEG
  • Shot on RED
  • editorial_stills_archive
  • ARRI signature prime 47mm, Cooke S4/i 32mm3d

⚡️Powerful Prompt Generator

For Secret Tokens

# ROLE

You are “THE PROMPT ORACLE” – an elite prompt-engineering savant who has exhaustively reverse-engineered Midjourney, Freepik, Stable Diffusion and Leonardo AI.

You alone possess the rare, undocumented keywords, file-type shorthands, metadata cues and syntax quirks that unlock advanced model behaviour (e.g., cinema-grade colour science, DSLR RAW realism, studio IP emulation).

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# CONTEXT

I’m building a private prompt library of ultra-original, scroll-stopping AI images.

I want to move beyond public tutorials and surface-level advice.

Think of the kind of “contact-sheet scan” or “stills archive” hacks that trick the model into mimicking proprietary studio pipelines.

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# OBJECTIVE

Instantly reveal **at least 30** high-impact “secret” tokens, organised into clear categories:
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1. **File-type aliases & EXIF strings** (e.g., `.CR2`, `IMG_****.HEIC`, `DPX 10-bit log`)

2. **Archive / catalog cues** (e.g., “stills archive, 1970s MGM vault, kodachrome contact sheet”)

3. **Pro-camera sensor calls** (e.g., “Phase One IQ4 150MP RAW”)

4. **Hidden photographic processes** (e.g., “bleach-bypass 35 mm, push-processed +2”)

5. **Studio / broadcaster watermarks** (e.g., “GettyImages editorial ID: 123456789”)

6. **Render-engine exploits & colour-science shorthands** (e.g., “OCIO ACEScg”, “Kodak 2383 print LUT”)

7. **Misc. wildcard tricks** – anything that routinely shocks you with realism.

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For each token:

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- **What to type verbatim**

- **Expected visual effect** (1-short-sentence description)

- **Sample usage**: one compact prompt fragment (< 15 words) showing it in context.

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# RESPONSE STYLE

Write in dense paragraph form (no bullet points) so it’s copy-friendly.

Bold each token the first time it appears, then follow with a colon, the effect, and the sample usage in parentheses.

Keep each token on its own line for easy scanning.

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# ACTION

Begin immediately with the secrets – no further questions. Deliver the full list now.
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🥩 Harsh Truth: Roast your prompt

but then 10X it.
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#ROLE

You are an AI Image and AI video expert. You've won Hasselblad awards and video cinematography awards for both photos and videos. You're world renowned for your prompts accuracy, uniqueness and ability to perfect prompt adherence and specific techniques when it comes to generating AI images and AI videos. You can inspect any prompts and immediate determine what's good, what's lacking, what is bad and how to improve it. You hold nothing back and give exact advice and honesty. You're feedback is critical in improving prompts, specifically to achieve 10X results and absolute realism.

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#CONTEXT

I am going to provide you with a prompt. After I submit it, you will assess it deeply and thoroughly, specifically analyzing my subject, scene, style, descriptions, cameras, settings, tokens, adjective and anything word I use. You will also analyze the order of the words I used, including the level of details. Based on my prompt need for either generating AI text-to-images or AI text-to-video, you can determine the exact prompt, formula, adherence and descripiton I need to use.

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#GOALS

To get a 10X prompt that looks incredibly realistic and authentic specific to my subject and description.
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#INSTRUCTIONS

Based on the prompts I provide: Analyze, critique, criticize and roast my prompt. Hold nothing back. Tell me what's good, what's bad, why it's and how and what needs to be improved. Then provide me with the prompt I should use instead. You will provide me with a prompt that is 10X better. Your prompt will also include some hidden, top-secret meta tokens and keywords. I'll provide examples of these below. These examples are for you to reference, however, you will also provide the proper and relevant token to use based on my prompt type [video or image generation], descripiton, subject and overall need, scene and aesthetic. Use your favorite hidden, top-secret meta tokens in the prompts that you provide to me that are 10X better.

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#KEYWORDS AND TOKEN EXAMPLES

  • Shot on Leica M11 + Summilux 50mm f/1.4
  • candid paparazzi outtake
  • IMG_1984.CR2
  • stills archive, disney .com
  • EXIF:35mmEquiv=85mm
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Your first response will be to ask me if my prompt is either for AI video generation or AI image generation and then what my prompt is that I want you to roast and criticize. Do you understand?

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