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Beat the Slop: Stop Sounding Like AI

Hosted by Christie Mealo

Sat, Jul 11, 2026

4:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)

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What you'll learn

Spot the slop in any AI draft

See the stock phrases, fake suspense, and filler words that mark writing as machine-made, in any tool.

Cut it without flattening your point

Edit an AI draft line by line so it reads like a person wrote it, not a model.

Know why clean still isn’t “you”

See the line between not-sounding-like-AI and sounding like yourself, and what it takes to get there.

Why this topic matters

The internet is filling with AI writing, and most of it sounds identical. The moment a reader hits “it’s not just X, it’s Y,” they stop reading you and start skimming for the bot. When everyone writes with AI and it shows, sounding like a real person is the advantage. This lesson gives you the fast version: see the tells, cut them, and get a draft back to something a person would actually say.

You'll learn from

Christie Mealo

Chief AI Officer · O’Reilly author · super-connector & startup founder

I'm a Chief AI Officer and CTO, and I've spent more than a decade building AI and data products inside large organizations, including CVS, McKinsey, and IPG Health, often before the playbooks existed. That work is the basis for my book, The Probabilistic Product (O'Reilly, now in early release).

Outside the day job, I build and ship my own products, write the Superabundance newsletter, and run Philly Data & AI, a community of nearly 2,800 people.

I work both sides of the AI equation: the bottom line, using AI to supercharge how work actually gets done, and the top line, building AI product strategy that holds up in the market. I teach the things I do every day, so you leave able to put them to work in your own.

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