Use AI for writing without the cleanup tax

Universal prompt framework that works with all LLMs and writing types

If you’ve ever used AI to write an email, a blog post, or a project update and felt like you spent more time editing the output than it would have taken to write it yourself, chances are your draft looks something like this:

• It opens with “In today’s rapidly evolving landscape.”

• You keep removing “delve,” “tapestry,” and “it’s worth noting.”

• There are enough em dashes to fill a novel.

• The content is accurate, but it reads like it could have been written by anyone, about anything.

• You publish it anyway because the deadline won’t wait.

We dealt with the exact same thing for over three years at Towards AI, editing, rewriting, and occasionally questioning our life choices. Eventually, we decided to stop fixing drafts one at a time. We made one cheatsheet for the entire team to use every time they generate content, so the slop gets caught in the prompt before anyone has to read it.

Today we’re sharing it with our community for free, partly because if we have to read one more ‘devle’ and see another em dash, someone on the team is going to snap.

The Anti-Slop AI Writing Guide is a prompt template with 50+ banned words, style rules, and structural constraints baked in. You paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, or whatever LLM you use, fill in your topic and audience, and the AI follows your rules instead of making up its own. We’ve used it for emails, blog posts, reports, proposals, scripts, and it holds up across all of them. No technical skills, no setup, just copy, paste, and stop editing the same problems out of every draft.

Get the Anti-Slop Cheatsheet (Free)

The guide teaches you how to:

• Give the AI your outline, your section order, and your paragraph rules so it stops defaulting to listicles and generic five-part blog structure

• Ban specific sentence patterns that are AI fingerprints, not just words like “delve” but structures like “It isn’t just X, it’s Y” and openings like “In today’s fast-paced world.”

• Set accuracy guardrails so the AI doesn’t overstate claims, fabricate certainty, or ignore your source material

• Build a repeatable framework that you can paste across chats, rather than starting over for every new piece of writing.

• Use a second AI as an editor that audits the draft against your anti-slop rules and flags what to fix, so your own edit is a final pass, not a rewrite

It is designed to move the cleanup process into the prompt itself and provides a two-model AI framework to speed up your editing workflow. Download the guide, fill in your topic, and let the prompt do what you’ve been doing manually.

Download it free here!