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by BetterToBest 114 days ago
I'm not a developer — I came up with this idea and built an interactive prototype with Claude's help. Posting here because this needs real engineers to take it somewhere.

The idea: a declare-ai.json file any creator or platform can publish alongside content — declaring what percentage was written, coded, illustrated, or researched by AI vs humans, which tools were used, and who the human contributors are. An embeddable widget displays it as a collapsible pie chart. A browser extension auto-detects it on any page. A community forum handles disputes.

Think Creative Commons, but for AI provenance.

The demo is a full interactive developer briefing — architecture, JSON schema, forum mockup with a dispute thread example, tech stack, and phased roadmap. The widget on the page declares itself.

MIT licensed. Looking for developers who want to own this with me.

Genuinely open to all feedback — including "this already exists and here's why it won't work."