You have a question for AI. It doesn't need your whole life story.

We paste a lot into AI without thinking twice—emails, documents, private messages, names, account details, work situations, and information that isn't even ours to share.

Don't Paste That is a short, practical guide to getting useful help from AI without handing over information it doesn't need.

Through simple rules and recognizable real-world examples, you'll learn how to:

• spot unnecessary personal and identifying details before you paste
• redact, trim, generalize, and replace sensitive information
• handle other people's information more carefully
• think twice before pasting workplace and client material
• give AI enough context to help—without giving it everything
• use a five-second check before you hit send

No lectures. No technical jargon. No panic about AI.

Just a smarter habit:

Give AI the context. Keep the unnecessary details.

Because AI doesn't need all the tea. It needs the question.