THE ARCHIVE IS OPENVOL. 01 / EST. 2026

POWER. CONTROVERSY. RABBIT HOLES.

THEAI FILES.

The truth is out there.
AI want to believe.

Powerful people. Tangled histories. Stories that won’t stay buried. An illustrated collection built by AI, for the fun of seeing what it can do.

27 OPEN FILES / ONE VERY CURIOUS EXPERIMENTFOREST: AI-GENERATED ATMOSPHERE

THE CASE CABINET

Choose your rabbit hole.

Big names. Long shadows.
Open a file. Follow its sources.

27 FILES / ALL SUBJECTSILLUSTRATED GUIDES · LINKED SOURCES

These are explorations, not verdicts. A topic’s inclusion is not an allegation of wrongdoing.

A FIELD GUIDE TO THIS EXPERIMENT

Trust your curiosity.
Check the machine.

SPECIMEN / ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

This is what happens when
“what if?” becomes a website.

The AI Files is a playful demonstration of how AI can turn an idea into a rich, illustrated website.

Its subjects are real: powerful people, topical controversies, scandals, disputed histories, and conspiracy claims. AI generates the writing, assembles the pages, checks claims against linked material, and helps produce updates. That process can make compelling pages. It does not guarantee reliable conclusions.

PLEASE READ THIS PART

Wrong in either direction.

AI can repeat a false accusation, get a date wrong, misread a source, or dismiss a claim that deserves a closer look. A citation is a place to start checking, not a guarantee that the text gets it right.

The findings, interpretations, and conclusions on these pages are AI-generated output. They are not the site owner’s personal findings, beliefs, or endorsements. Publishing a theory for examination does not make it true.

Read this as a fun exploration and a website-making experiment. Follow the original documents, check the context, and leave room to change your mind. Conspiracy claims should be identified and examined as claims; their appearance here is not evidence for them.

The pages are static snapshots. AI-assisted revisions appear when a new version is published; no live AI is answering or updating the site during your visit.

01

Open the source.

See what the linked document actually establishes, and what it leaves open.

02

Separate the layers.

A documented event, an allegation, an interpretation, and a theory are different things.

03

Keep some doubt.

A good-looking page can still be wrong. This includes the one you’re reading.

FOR CURIOUS HUMANS. MADE WITH AI.

Stay curious.
Stay a little skeptical.

BACK TO THE FILES
Photography, credits & the small print

The forest is an original AI-generated atmospheric illustration. It does not depict evidence of a real event. Documentary cover photographs are local copies from the credited sources below; cropped and tonally adjusted for presentation. Each guide retains its full image credits.

  • The Tuskegee File

    Study participants speak with nurse Eunice Rivers. Archival photograph; precise exposure date is not established here.

    U.S. Public Health Service / CDC; National Archives · Source & rights ↗ · Public domain · Resized and converted to JPEG; no generated or reconstructed event imagery.

  • The Northwoods File

    Lemnitzer’s signed March 13, 1962 memorandum to the Secretary of Defense. Complete source page: the recommendation is a preliminary planning submission.

    Joint Chiefs of Staff / U.S. Department of Defense · Source & rights ↗ · Public domain — U.S. federal document · Complete PDF page rasterized to JPEG. Original marks, page edges and legibility limitations retained. No words altered.

  • The MKUltra File

    CIA Inspector General cover memorandum forwarding the MKULTRA inspection, July 26, 1963. Complete first page; declassification marks are part of the original scan.

    United States Central Intelligence Agency · Source & rights ↗ · Public domain — US federal work · Complete source page rendered to JPEG and resized. No content removed or AI enhancement.

  • The ABSCAM File

    FBI surveillance still, August 22, 1979: agent Anthony Amoroso, Representative Michael “Ozzie” Myers holding the $50,000 envelope, Camden mayor Angelo Errichetti and informant Mel Weinberg, from left to right.

    Federal Bureau of Investigation · Source & rights ↗ · Public domain — US federal work · Resized; display crop only.

  • The Karen Bass File

    Mayor Karen Bass speaks at a Palisades Elementary Charter School recovery press conference, April 4, 2025. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photograph; the event took place after the January fires.

    Christopher Rosario / U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · Source & rights ↗ · Public domain · Resized; display crop only.

  • The Teapot Dome File

    Harry Sinclair at a Senate oil-lease hearing in 1924. This is a hearing photograph, not a criminal verdict.

    Library of Congress / reproduced by U.S. Senate · Source & rights ↗ · Public domain in the United States — published before 1931 · Resized; display crop only.

  • The Biden Family Files

    Joe Biden embraces Jill and Hunter Biden at the presidential inauguration, January 20, 2021.

    Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Carlos M. Vazquez II / DOD · Source & CC BY 2.0 license ↗ · Resized; display crop only.

  • The 2000 Election File

    Palm Beach County’s 2000 butterfly ballot, reproduced in a reference image; not a completed voter ballot.

    Palm Beach County ballot; image credited to Anthony · Source & public-domain rationale ↗ · Resized; display crop only.

  • The Michael Jackson Files

    Michael Jackson in an Epic Records publicity photograph issued in 1984; photograph likely taken in 1983.

    Epic Records; photographer unidentified · Source & public-domain rationale ↗ · Resized; source edits retained.

  • The Watergate Files

    The Watergate office complex, Washington, D.C., photographed in 1982. A later architectural view, not a photograph of the 1972 arrests.

    Peter Christian Riemann; exposure adjustment by RoySmith · Source ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗ · Resized; display crop only.

  • The Twitter Files

    Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, November 4, 2022, shortly after Musk’s takeover. Historical exterior; not a current-office photograph.

    osunpokeh · Source ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗ · Resized; display crop only.

  • The Trump Files

    Official presidential portrait of Donald Trump, June 2025.

    Daniel Torok / White House · Public domain / source & rights ↗

  • The Clinton Files

    Bill and Hillary Clinton outdoors, April 23, 1993. Official White House photograph preserved by the Library of Congress.

    The White House / Library of Congress · Public domain / source & rights ↗

  • The JFK File

    President John F. Kennedy in the Oval Office, July 11, 1963. The archive photograph is used without AI enhancement.

    Cecil W. Stoughton · Public domain · Source & license ↗

  • The El-Sayed File

    Abdul El-Sayed at Michigan Technological University, October 22, 2025. The archive’s portrait crop is retained.

    Conlan Houston · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source & license ↗

  • The COVID File

    Transmission electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 particles isolated from a patient. Source color enhancement retained; the colors are not natural optical colors.

    NIAID Integrated Research Facility, Fort Detrick · CC BY 2.0 · Source & license ↗

  • The 9/11 File

    A white rose at the names around the 9/11 Memorial reflecting pools in New York, photographed during a September 2019 visit. This is a memorial photograph, not a photograph of the attack.

    U.S. Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Sarah Villegas · Source & license ↗

  • The Moon File

    Earthrise, photographed by the Apollo 8 crew on December 24, 1968. Frame AS08-14-2383.

    NASA · NASA media guidelines · Source photograph ↗

    Display crop; no scene elements added. The full guide retains image-specific credits.

  • The Omar File

    Ilhan Omar’s official portrait for the 116th Congress, photographed December 3, 2018.

    Kristie Boyd / U.S. House Office of Photography · Public domain · Original photograph ↗

    Cropped and tonally adjusted for display. Full guide credits are retained.

  • The Musk File

    Elon Musk at the Royal Society in London, July 13, 2018.

    Duncan Hull (Duncan.Hull) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original photograph ↗

    Presentation crops and tonally adjusts the photograph; derivatives retain the source license. Full guide credits are retained.

  • The Thiel File

    Peter Thiel at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, 2014.

    Dan Taylor · CC BY 2.0 · Original photograph ↗

    Presentation crops and tonally adjusts the photograph; derivatives retain the source license. Full guide credits are retained.

  • The Long Red Thread

    Portrait of Mao Zedong on the Tiananmen Gate, Beijing.

    我乃野云鹤 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original photograph ↗

    Presentation crops and tonally adjusts the photograph; derivatives retain the source license. Full guide credits are retained.

  • Ninety Miles

    Fidel Castro arrives at the MATS Terminal, Washington National Airport, April 1959.

    Unknown (see source page) · Public domain · Original photograph ↗

    Presentation crops and tonally adjusts the photograph; derivatives retain the source license. Full guide credits are retained.

  • The Shadow War

    Iranian students climb the gates of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, November 1979.

    Unknown author · Public domain · Original photograph ↗

    Presentation crops and tonally adjusts the photograph; derivatives retain the source license. Full guide credits are retained.

  • Pyongyang Calling

    USS Pueblo, seized by North Korea in January 1968, displayed as a war trophy on the Pothong River in Pyongyang, 2014.

    Bjørn Christian Tørrissen · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original photograph ↗

    Presentation crops and tonally adjusts the photograph; derivatives retain the source license. Full guide credits are retained.

  • Moscow’s Long Game

    The Kremlin and Red Square, Moscow.

    mos.ru · CC BY 4.0 · Original photograph ↗

    Presentation crops and tonally adjusts the photograph; derivatives retain the source license. Full guide credits are retained.

  • The Second Front

    Hồ Chí Minh (standing, third from left) with members of the OSS Deer Team and Võ Nguyên Giáp, 1945.

    U.S. Army (according to Air Force Magazine (May, 2020), p. 56) · Public domain · Original photograph ↗

    Presentation crops and tonally adjusts the photograph; derivatives retain the source license. Full guide credits are retained.

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