{"id":51110,"date":"2026-11-12T18:35:41","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T17:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/chatgpts-edits-going-too-far-this-prompt-keeps-them-surgical\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T18:35:41","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T17:35:41","slug":"chatgpts-edits-going-too-far-this-prompt-keeps-them-surgical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/chatgpts-edits-going-too-far-this-prompt-keeps-them-surgical\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT\u2019s edits going too far? This prompt keeps them surgical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This doesn&#8217;t affect our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/about\/affiliate-link-policy\" target=\"_blank\">editorial independence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> \t\t \t\t \t \t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\tAdd this simple prompt to your ChatGPT editing queries to lock down the rest of your text.\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t     <\/p>\n<p>With the right prompt, you can get ChatGPT to act as a smart \u201csearch and replace\u201d tool, snipping out unwanted words or making other document-wide edits.<\/p>\n<p>The problem, of course, is making sure ChatGPT (or Claude or Gemini) doesn\u2019t make other, unwanted edits, subtly tweaking your words or otherwise altering your voice. Indeed, if it does too much rewriting, ChatGPT might end up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3179916\/claude-ranked-my-sounds-like-ai-writing-habits.html\">making you sound like AI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Those using ChatGPT and other AI chatbots <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com?id=111346X1569483&#038;xs=1&#038;url=https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/ChatGPT\/comments\/1rznegl\/why_is_chatgpt_still_useless_at_the_most_basic\/&#038;xcust=2-0-3283689-1-0-0-0-0&#038;sref=https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3283689\/chatgpts-edits-going-too-far-this-prompt-keeps-them-surgical.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-subtag=\"2-0-3283689-1-0-0-0-0\" data-domain-name=\"reddit\" target=\"_blank\">have long grappled<\/a> with how to keep the models from <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com?id=111346X1569483&#038;xs=1&#038;url=https:\/\/community.openai.com\/t\/strict-edit-mode-to-prevent-unintended-rewrites\/1248282&#038;xcust=2-0-3283689-1-0-0-0-0&#038;sref=https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3283689\/chatgpts-edits-going-too-far-this-prompt-keeps-them-surgical.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-subtag=\"2-0-3283689-1-0-0-0-0\" data-domain-name=\"openai\" target=\"_blank\">altering passages<\/a> of their original code or text when requesting edits,<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3283689\/chatgpts-edits-going-too-far-this-prompt-keeps-them-surgical.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This doesn&#8217;t affect our editorial independence . Add this simple prompt to your ChatGPT editing queries to lock down the rest of your text. With the right prompt, you can get ChatGPT to act as a smart \u201csearch and replace\u201d tool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":51112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[348,36,2963],"class_list":["post-51110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech","tag-ai","tag-mixtv","tag-personal-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}