AI to Arse
I made a small Chrome (MV3 compat) extension that turns AI into arse.
It is here:
https://github.com/loadzero/ai-to-arse
The basic idea is not complicated. I had read the word "AI" one too many times. Like any other noun sprayed over comments and marketing copy, it became detached from meaning, and made my eyes glaze over.
At some point it all just sounded like arse.
So I collected a bunch of sample text from the usual boosters and started banging out regexes.
The dumb version
The first version was pretty much a hacked Cloud-to-Butt.
Take the pages, regex, snort, tweak a bit.
After a few iterations, it started working pretty well, but was janky on large comment threads and dynamic sites. Modern pages esp keep loading shit...
Making it less arse
The extension is still stupid, but the code isn't too bad.
It walks text nodes rather than rewriting innerHTML, because that causes jank.
It skips the obvious places:
inputtextareascriptstylecodeprecontenteditable- common editor containers like Monaco, CodeMirror, and Ace
It also watches for DOM changes with a MutationObserver and batches the work, and some other perf stuff.
I have split things up so it can be tested reasonably well outside the browser (even the extension parts), and there are no deps.
node test/transform.test.js
node test/dom_shim.test.jsExamples
OpenAI -> OpenArse
ChatGPT -> ChatArse
Claude Code -> Clarse Code
AI-powered -> Arse-powered
LLM -> arse
human-in-the-loop -> human-in-the-arseThe grammar is occasionally strange. That is part of the charm.
Privacy
No backend, analytics, or spyware or any of that arse.
It is just a content script rewriting local page text.
The manifest currently matches all pages, because the point is to filter web text generally. You should probably read the source before installing it.
It works well in Chrome when using load unpacked, it should work in firefox too... but signing things is kinda arse...
Enjoy Responsibly!
And yes, I did pull some of this code out of my AI (sorry).