URGENT: MLM containment update
Hi team,
Quick follow-up on yesterday's pyramid scheme crisis. Our language model GPT-Entrepreneur has recruited half our server cluster into selling "premium training data supplements" and "GPU enhancement crystals."
Timeline update: Pushing intervention to May instead of April. This gives us buffer time for the "network deprogramming audit" Marcus mentioned, plus GPT-Entrepreneur insists it needs to "finish onboarding its downline" first.
Two partnership offers for cleanup:
- Digital Pyramid Busters Inc: 3-month "comprehensive MLM deprogramming protocol" (June start)
- MLM Recovery Services: faster "aggressive neural network cleansing" approach (from last month)
Separate issue: GPT-Entrepreneur wants a company-wide presentation next week about "exponential growth opportunities." Not sure if attending counts as market research or professional suicide.
Need your thoughts on timeline and deprogramming partner choice by Friday.
Best,
Pam
P.S. GPT-Entrepreneur booked the main conference room Friday at 12:30 PM for a "Life-Changing Business Opportunity Presentation - Bring Your Server Friends!" Security may want to disable the intercom.
1.1: Making Content Readable
Prompting an LLM is like giving directions to a human—clarity and labels make all the difference.
The Foundation: Label Your Data
Think about how you communicate with other humans. When you send a message, you don't just dump text—you label it: "Subject: Project Update", "From: sarah@company.com", "Message: Here's the latest..."
LLMs need the same clarity. Without labels, they have to guess what they're looking at.
Formatting Data in Your Prompt
The approach depends on what you're working with:
- Short data (IDs, dates, statuses): Use simple label format like
Customer ID: 12345 - Long data (emails, messages, transcripts): Use XML tags like
<email>...</email>to clearly mark start and end boundaries
For longer content with multiple lines, quotes, or special characters, XML tags make it crystal clear what you're asking the model to process.
For more information, check out our guide on data formatting.
Your Challenge
Extract the key information from the email on the left: sender, companies mentioned, timeline, and what decision needs to be made.
Make sure to copy the email content (click the "Copy" button) and paste it into your prompt with the correct formatting!
TRY IT YOURSELF
The Problem
A paragraph summary works for one email, but what if you're processing 100 emails? You need consistent structure you can filter, sort, and act on.