Don't Paste the AI: Stop Copying ChatGPT Replies Verbatim
Original: Don't Paste the AI, please
Why This Matters
Reflects growing concern over AI-mediated communication eroding authentic human exchange in workplaces and online communities.
A new community site, dontpastetheai.com, urges people to stop copy-pasting raw AI chatbot output as their personal replies. The site argues that when someone asks you a question, they want your own perspective — not an unedited wall of text from a language model.
Launched as a community resource in the spirit of nohello.net and dontasktoask.im, dontpastetheai.com targets a growing communication habit: opening ChatGPT or Claude, feeding in a question, and forwarding the output verbatim as one's own answer. The site argues this behavior defeats the purpose of human-to-human communication. 'The person on the other side has the same tools you do,' the site states. 'If they wanted the generic answer, they would have gotten it in four seconds.' The site does not discourage AI use outright. Instead, it recommends using AI as a drafting partner — reading the output, extracting the relevant portion, and writing a personal, concise reply in your own words. It also sanctions quoting model output explicitly, e.g., 'I checked with Claude and this part lines up,' as a transparent and acceptable practice. Described as 'satire, mostly,' the site is open-source, free to share and remix, and welcomes translations via GitHub pull requests. It was written, it notes, 'by a human, on purpose.'