I Made ChatGPT Write a Product Description and Then Took the Robot Out of It

The first draft ChatGPT gives you for a product description reads like every other page on the internet, because it is averaging the whole internet. The trick was not a cleverer prompt up front, it was a second pass where I told it exactly which words made it sound like a template and banned them.

I started by giving it the facts only: what the thing is, who it is for, the one problem it solves, and three details a buyer actually asks about. No tone instructions, no please be persuasive. A flat brief produces a flat draft, and a flat draft is easier to fix than an overeager one.

Then I pasted the draft back and said remove every sentence a competitor could have written, replace every generic adjective with a specific one, and keep it under ninety words. That single instruction did more than any persona trick. The robot voice is mostly vague praise, so I made vagueness the thing it had to cut.

The last step was mine. I read it aloud and swapped any phrase that I would never say to a customer. ChatGPT writes the skeleton; you are the editor who decides if a human would say it. Treat the output as a first employee's draft, not copy you ship.

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