Stop Being the Copy-Paste Proxy Between People and ChatGPT

A single-page manifesto makes a simple argument: when someone asks you a question, dumping raw chatbot output back at them is worse than useless. They already have the same models you do—if they wanted the generic four-second answer, they’d have fetched it themselves. What they’re actually after is your context, taste, and judgment, none of which survive a blind copy-paste.

The site isn’t anti-AI. It frames chatbots as fine drafting partners and even endorses quoting a model directly when a specific passage genuinely helps, provided you explain why it’s relevant. The core discipline is editorial: read what the model produced, extract the few sentences that actually answer the question, and add your own take—or admit you have nothing to add, which it treats as a perfectly valid reply. Three sentences from a human beat three paragraphs from a machine.

Beyond the pitch, the page doubles as a social nudge. It offers a shareable link (plus a blunter ‘angry version’) to send anyone who drops a wall of model output into a DM, Slack thread, or PR review, letting the recipient deliver the hint without writing the lecture themselves. It’s a small piece of etiquette commentary aimed at a workplace culture already saturated with unedited generative text.