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Stop Sloppypasta: Don't paste raw LLM output at people
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Sloppypasta: verbatim LLM output pasted at people. Why it's rude and what to do instead.
Stop Sloppypasta: Don't paste raw LLM output at people Skip to main content You just got an unread message notification. Maybe it's on Slack (or Teams), a text message, or an email. Maybe you were tagged in Notion or an Office doc. You open it to find several paragraphs of text - or perhaps a listicle - with all the hallmarks of AI-generated writing : headings, heavy formatting, and "it's not X it's Y", with em-dashes sprinkled gratuitously throughout. The person who sent it probably spent about ten seconds on it. They asked a chatbot and forwarded its response to you verbatim without validati
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