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khaosdoctor/dontquotetheai

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TLDR

A satirical static website you can share with people who paste AI-generated text without reading it, available in a friendly version and a pointed version, with multi-language support.

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  root((dontquotetheai))
    What it does
      Satirical nudge page
      Two tone versions
    Site Versions
      Smooth friendly
      Angry pointed
    Translations
      Multiple languages
      HTML files per lang
    Tech
      Static HTML
      Cloudflare Workers
    Contributing
      Add language files
      Register in dropdown
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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Send the friendly version to a colleague or manager who forwards walls of unread AI text.

USE CASE 2

Send the pointed version to a friend who can take a joke about pasting AI output without reading it.

USE CASE 3

Contribute a new language translation by adding two HTML files and a social preview image.

Tech stack

HTMLCloudflare Workers

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

Pure static HTML, open in a browser or run a Python web server, deployment is automatic on push via Cloudflare Workers.

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In plain English

dontpastetheai.com is a small satirical website you can send to someone who responds to every question by pasting a wall of AI-generated text they clearly did not read. The site delivers that message in a light way, and the README makes clear it is satire: no one is being attacked, the goal is just a nudge to actually read before forwarding. The project has two versions of the page. The smooth version is friendly and work-safe, suitable for sending to a colleague or manager. The angry version delivers the same message with more feeling and some intentional edge, suitable for people who can take a pointed joke. Both versions cross-link to each other via a button, so the recipient can see both tones. Translation is a stated priority and the README provides detailed instructions for contributors. Each language needs two HTML files, one for each version, plus a social preview image so platforms like Twitter and Slack display the right card when the link is shared. The translation guide covers which text to change, which to leave alone, how to handle font substitutions for non-Latin scripts like Cyrillic or Chinese (since the default font only covers Latin characters), and how to register the new language in the existing pages' dropdown menus and alternate link tags. The site is static HTML with no build process. Local development requires nothing beyond a browser or a simple Python web server. Deployment runs through Cloudflare Workers, and pushing to the main branch publishes changes automatically to both domain names. The copy button on each page reads which domain the visitor arrived on and copies the matching URL to the clipboard.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Using the dontquotetheai codebase, add a Portuguese translation by creating two HTML files following the translation guide in the README.
Prompt 2
Modify the dontquotetheai copy button so it always copies the smooth version URL regardless of which domain the visitor arrived on.
Prompt 3
Add a third tone variant to dontquotetheai called 'passive-aggressive' that cross-links with the existing smooth and angry pages.
Prompt 4
Deploy a fork of dontquotetheai to Cloudflare Workers under a custom domain by updating the wrangler config.
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