Peter Yang · Evaluation
Cut the AI tells, keep the voice
Peter Yang's no-ai-slop skill names the patterns that make writing sound machine-made: empty superlatives, false contrasts, throat-clearing openers and closing lines that try to sound profound. Make the minimum effective edit: cut the patterns, keep the facts and leave the writer's own voice intact.
When it helps
When an AI draft sounds like everyone else's, when it's full of words like seamless and cutting-edge, or when you want to check a piece before it's published.
Keep in mind
When the goal is to fool an AI detector. These patterns say nothing about who wrote a piece, and a rough sentence with a real voice should stay.
How to apply it
- Make the minimum effective edit. Remove the patterns, errors and repetition but keep strong sentences, humour, hesitation and quirks. The piece should still sound like the same person afterwards.
- Run the portability test. If a sentence could move unchanged to another company, country or product, it's probably filler. Cut it or replace it with a fact, example or consequence that only applies here.
- Cut the constructions: 'It's not X, it's Y' (just say Y), throat-clearing openers like 'Here's the thing' and 'Let's dive in', colon reveals like 'The best part: …', clusters of em dashes, recap endings and closing lines that try to sound deep.
- Swap empty words for what they should mean. Seamless, robust, leverage, delve, unlock your potential and in today's fast-paced world say nothing on their own – write what the product does, for whom and how.
- Show rather than tell the reader what to think. Cut 'this matters' and 'the interesting part is' and let facts, examples and consequences carry the point.
- Name the source or cut the claim. 'Experts agree' and 'studies show' without a source should go; ask for the evidence rather than inventing it.
Questions to work with
- Which sentences would work just as well for a competitor?
- What in the piece sounds like the writer, and how do we protect it?
- Which claims lack a named source or a concrete fact?
A fictional example
Fictional: Räkna handles day-to-day bookkeeping for small businesses, and every client gets a dedicated contact to email.
Draft
In today's fast-paced world, it's not just about bookkeeping – it's about freedom. Räkna offers a seamless, tailored solution that unlocks your potential.
Revised
Räkna handles your day-to-day bookkeeping, and you get a dedicated contact to email whenever something is unclear.
The buzzwords and the false contrast are gone; what remains is what the service does and who the reader can ask.
Read the original sources
- Peter Yang: no-ai-slop (skill på GitHub, MIT) ↗
- Peter Yang: Use my /no-ai-slop skill to remove 20+ patterns of AI slop ↗
The application and example are our own. The example is fictional and has not been conversion-tested.