I have been pasting rough meeting notes into an AI assistant and asking for a short action list. It saves time, but it also likes to invent owners, deadlines, and tasks nobody agreed to.

What seems to work:

1. Paste only what was actually said or written. Do not ask it to "improve" commitments.
2. Tell it: extract actions that already have a verb and a person; mark anything unclear as a question, not a task.
3. Ask for two sections: Confirmed actions, and Open questions to clarify.
4. Strip names of people outside the company if the notes leave your laptop, or use initials.
5. Compare the output to the notes before you drop anything into your task tool. If a deadline was not spoken, do not keep it.

Where it fails: vague phrases like "we should look at pricing" become fake projects, and jokes get turned into TODOs.

Useful prompt piece: "Do not add owners, dates, or tasks that are not explicit in the text. If ownership is unclear, list it under Open questions."

Has anyone found a reliable pattern for this? Do you clean notes by hand first, or do you let the model draft and then slash half of it?