MonkeyTax: AI Footprint & Reality Check

Stop using supercomputers like a monkey on a typewriter. Local water and energy receipts for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.

Stop using supercomputers like a monkey on a typewriter. MonkeyTax is a 100% local, privacy-first browser extension that translates the invisible resource footprint of your prompts into clear, human-scale physical receipts across ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. KEY FEATURES • The "Instant Regret" Roast Pill: Catches elementary arithmetic ("45 * 12"), polite small talk ("Thanks!"), and zero-context retries on sight, serving a witty reality check directly in your chat stream. • Everyday Physical Equivalents: No abstract megawatt-hours. See energy and cooling translated into sips of water, minutes of running a desk lamp, and microwave bursts. • Floating Thread Dock: A lightweight, non-intrusive dock at the top of your chat window tracking turns, cumulative water consumption, and energy draw for the entire conversation. • Interactive History Scanner: Scan active chat sessions to calculate total session impact across lazy-loaded message histories. • Personal 365-Day Pace: View your rolling daily stats and an empirical annual projection based on your actual habits—without preachy guilt. • Peer-Reviewed Math: Telemetry models are grounded in published academic research from UC Riverside (Li et al.), Hugging Face (Luccioni et al.), and the International Energy Agency (IEA), with complete Scope 1 (on-site cooling) and Scope 2 (grid thermoelectric water) transparency. 100% LOCAL & PRIVACY-FIRST • Zero AI wrappers: Runs no backend models to evaluate your prompts. • Deterministic evaluation: Evaluates queries locally using deterministic heuristics and client-side token estimation. • Zero data exfiltration: Prompts never leave your browser; zero telemetry, zero analytics tracking, and zero external servers. • Open Source: Fully transparent and auditable. --- App icons based on Twemoji by Twitter, licensed under CC-BY 4.0.