Why your ChatGPT text breaks when you paste it somewhere else

Ever copy text from ChatGPT (or Claude, Gemini, whatever) and it looks totally normal then you paste it into WordPress and the spacing goes weird, or you paste code and a comparison just... fails for no reason?

It's not you. AI chat interfaces inject invisible characters into their output zero-width spaces, non-breaking spaces, sometimes a byte order mark

stuff you literally cannot see by reading the text. They ride along silently until they break something downstream.

Made a free tool that finds and strips all of it in one click, no sign-up, runs in your browser (nothing gets uploaded): aicleanertext.com

Useful if you're a writer pasting AI drafts into a CMS, a dev debugging a string comparison that makes no sense, or just tired of weird formatting glitches after copy-pasting AI output.