The De-Slop Prompt Stack: Six Prompts That Stop Claude and ChatGPT From Sounding Like a Robot
Written by Maren Holloway
Readers now punish writing that feels machine-made. These six prompts remove the tells, and they're built to be saved once and used forever.

The De-Slop Prompt Stack: Six Prompts That Stop Claude and ChatGPT From Sounding Like a Robot
Merriam-Webster made slop its 2025 word of the year, and the trust penalty is now measurable: 52% of consumers disengage the moment they suspect copy is AI-written, yet 56% preferred an unlabeled AI article over the human version. The penalty is for the tells, not the tool. This is the six-prompt stack that removes them: a rhythm and banned-words instruction, a voice transplant, a coffee test, a specificity pass that refuses to invent numbers, an honest objection, and a true-anecdote opener. Three are standing instructions you save once; three are editing passes you run before anything ships.




