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STOP SOUNDING LIKE A ROBOT:

A Practical Guide to Editing AI Content

"AI Slop" was named 2025 Word of the Year by both Merriam-Webster and the American Dialect Society. While AI Slop often refers to the flood of low-quality synthetic content clogging social media and search results, there is a quieter version of the same problem affecting professionals every day: AI Banality.

The generic terms, overused phrases and predictable structures that AI tools produce by default when you ask them to help with your writing.

This book gives you a practical, research-informed process to fix that.

Diagnose AI Banality using a simple three-question test (the Banality Test).
Write prompts that reduce generic output before it reaches the page.
Build a persistent Voice Editor using ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini - that remembers your brand voice across every session.
Edit AI drafts using a three-stage process: Strip, Shape, Strengthen.
Add your Human Sparkle, the personality, perspective and experience that only you can provide.

The book includes six before-and-after examples across LinkedIn posts, client emails, blog introductions and event promotions showing exactly how the editing process works in practice, plus a standalone Editing Checklist you can use every day.

This book will change how you work with AI, from marketing to consulting, communication to business ownership. Not by telling you to stop using AI, but by showing you what to do before and after it has generated its first draft, because that is where the real work begins.