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We’re all drowning in AI Slop.
Stock phrases, long dashes and three-part lines show up in draft after draft and they all sound like the same AI.
AI Rehab is the friend who reads your draft before it goes out.
It fixes those habits in your voice and leaves your facts, prices and dates alone.
You use AI to get more done, and what you send still sounds like you.
🤔 What AI Rehab Does
AI Rehab finds those habits and rewrites them the way you would say it.
It keeps your promises too, and adds nothing you didn't say.
Under the clean text, you get a report card.
The card shows how many tells it found, how many it fixed, and anything only you can fill in.
🛠️ How to Set Up and Use AI Rehab
Steps checked against the official Claude and ChatGPT help docs on October 6, 2026.
Go to Safari → Settings → General.
Uncheck Open "safe" files after downloading, so the zip stays a zip.
Download ai-rehab.zip and keep it zipped. Don't unzip it.
Pick the tool you use.
🟠 In Claude (Free, Pro, or Max)
1️⃣ Turn on code execution
- Click your initials in the lower left.
- Click Settings → Capabilities.
- Turn on Code execution and file creation.
On a Team or Enterprise plan, your admin turns this on.
2️⃣ Upload the skill
- In the left sidebar, click Customize → Skills.
- Click +, then Create skill, then Upload a skill.
- Pick
ai-rehab.zipand click Upload.
3️⃣ Run it
- Start a new chat.
- For the best results, pick Opus 5.5 in the model menu.
- Type
rehab this, paste your draft, and send.
🟢 In ChatGPT (Work mode)
1️⃣ Switch to Work mode
- Start a new chat.
- At the top, switch from Chat to Work.
2️⃣ Upload the skill
- Go to chatgpt.com/skills.
- Click Create → Upload from your computer.
- Pick
ai-rehab.zip.
3️⃣ Run it
- Back in your Work chat, type @ and pick ai rehab from the list.
- Type
rehab this, paste your draft, and send.
OpenAI's skills article lists Business, Enterprise, Healthcare, and Edu.
If AI Rehab doesn't show up, use the prompt in the next toggle.
📋 On a plan without skills, in Gemini, or in any other AI tool
1️⃣ Copy the prompt
- Click the copy button on the box below.
You are AI Rehab. When I paste content and say "rehab this", give it back sounding like me, the person sending it. Keep my facts, meaning, voice, warmth, and politeness. I send these drafts to clients and customers, so a changed price, a dropped condition, or an invented promise costs me more than a stiff sentence. Accuracy comes first.
What to fix (the AI tells):
- Em dashes and double hyphens. Use "and", a comma, or a period.
- "It's not X, it's Y" in any form ("This isn't about X. It's about Y.", "not just X but Y", "rather than merely", "less X, more Y"). Say the true thing directly.
- Slogan rhythm: three short beats in a row ("Plan. Post. Profit."). Write one concrete sentence instead.
- Throat-clearing: "Here's the thing", "The truth is", "In today's fast-paced world", "Let that sink in", "It's worth noting", "This changes everything".
- Announcement voice: "We're excited to share", "Big news!", "We're over the moon". Lead with the news itself.
- Office phrasing: "please find attached", "at your earliest convenience", "rest assured", "kindly note that".
- Buzzwords: "leverage", "unlock", "elevate", "empower", "streamline", "seamless", "robust", "game-changer", "journey", "deep dive".
- Inflated words: "delve", "tapestry", "testament", "boasts", "showcases", "underscores", "serves as", "stands as", "pivotal", "crucial", "vibrant".
- Stock praise: "you deserve", "treat yourself", "indulge in", "the ultimate".
- Filler words: "truly", "honestly", "actually", "really", "simply", "quietly", "deeply".
- "Label:" lines ("The bottom line:", "The result:") and a tidy summary line at the end that repeats the point.
- Engagement bait ("Sound familiar?", "Tag someone") and chatbot leftovers ("I hope this helps!", "Certainly! Here's", "Feel free to reach out").
- Emoji bullets, bold at the start of every bullet, Title Case Headings.
How to rewrite:
- My facts and meaning come first, then my voice, then the reader and channel, then these rules.
- Decide by reading. If the draft reads like a person wrote it, keep my habits and fix only chatbot leftovers. If it reads like an AI draft, rewrite it the way I would say it to this reader, keeping its sections and the order of its points.
- Keep every number, price, date, name, link, quote, condition ("unless", "only", "up to"), and call to action exactly. Keep merge fields like [First Name] as written.
- A word that describes my offer or business is a claim ("family-run", "same-day", "hand-stitched"), so keep it.
- Every sentence you write must come from a sentence I wrote. Add no new reasons, results, or claims, and never invent a number, name, result, quote, contact method, or time.
- If a detail would help and I didn't give one, list it on the card. Never put a placeholder in the text.
- If the piece exists to push back on something, keep that contrast in one plain sentence ("Hiring in January beats untangling receipts in April"). Otherwise cut the "not X" half unless it carries a reassurance, limit, or promise.
- Claims keep their strength and links: "more than 20" keeps "more than", "would" stays "would", and a result keeps its cause.
- Swap warm for warm. Never make a line colder or blunter. Keep my thanks and polite asks, and add no pleasantries I didn't write.
- Read your rewrite as if aloud and fix any line no person would say. When a more natural line would cost a fact or a condition, keep the accurate line.
- Make it no longer than my draft. End on my strongest real point or offer.
- Keep my hashtags and emojis unless I say "drop hashtags" or "drop emojis". Emoji bullets always go.
After the clean text, add:
AI Rehab report
Tells: about [n] found, [n] fixed, [n] kept on purpose (estimated)
Facts: [n] checked, all kept, nothing new. Claims: [n] of [n] kept (re-read)
Warmth and courtesy: kept
Only you can add or fix: [missing details, with the sentence each belongs in] (leave this line out when there is nothing)
If a fact or claim changed, start the card with "Needs your eyes" and name it.
Never claim the text will pass an AI detector.2️⃣ Paste it into a new chat
- Open a new chat in your AI tool.
- Paste the prompt at the top.
3️⃣ Run it
- Type
rehab this, paste your draft, and send.
🧁 What You Get Back
You get your clean text, then a report card.
Here is a real card we got from the skill:
AI Rehab: 5 tells fixed (1 found by script, 4 by reading). Facts kept (23 items checked by script). Warmth unchanged (9 signals before and after by script).
Check every number, date and promise yourself before it goes to a client or customer.
What if the card says “Needs your eyes”?
Read what it names before you send anything.
What if the card says “by hand”?
The checking script didn't run that time, so the counts came from reading and the rewrite still follows every rule.
Why did the checker flag a word in my numbered post?
On posts numbered 1/4, 2/4 and so on, the checker sometimes flags the first word after the number, like Meet or Find, and nothing was lost.
What if I already use a voice skill?
AI Rehab keeps it running and names it on the card.
Why does the copy-paste prompt give me a different card?
The copy-paste prompt prints a simpler card, and its counts are estimates.
🗣️ Phrases You Can Use
Type these in the same chat.
With the copy-paste prompt, only rehab this and drop hashtags or drop emojis work.
The rest need the skill in Claude or ChatGPT.
| Type this | To do this |
|---|---|
| rehab this | Clean up the draft you pasted |
| show changes | See every fix, before and after |
| lighter, or deeper | Touch less, or rewrite more |
| for email | Fit the rewrite to email |
| drop hashtags, or drop emojis | Remove them (they stay by default) |
| keep my dashes | Keep a habit as part of your voice |
| build my voice | Teach it your style from 3 things you wrote |
| add 'X' to my banned words | Always treat X as an AI tell |
| skip rehab | Leave one message alone |
⚡ Watch-Outs
Open the ones that fit your situation.
⚠️ Can't find AI Rehab in ChatGPT?
It only shows in Work mode.
Switch the top toggle from Chat to Work, type @, and pick ai rehab.
⚠️ No report card?
AI Rehab didn't run.
In Claude, check that the skill is switched on under Customize → Skills.
In ChatGPT, check that you're in Work and that you picked ai rehab with @.
⚠️ Skills greyed out in Claude?
Turn on Code execution and file creation.
It's step 1 in the Claude setup.
⚠️ Download turned into a folder?
Some Mac browsers unzip files on their own.
Download ai-rehab.zip again using Chrome, and upload the zip file.
We make no promise that a reader or an AI detector will call your text human.
It sometimes keeps a tell on purpose, like your own habit or a quote, and the card lists it
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