I worked on this project for over one year. I wrote an entire distributed framework to calculate maximal triplets, and I have 130+ machines running 24/7 for 12 weeks on N=8192. This article is an extended version of the script for the video documentary that will be released before the end of the year.
If you look back at my website, I used to publish two small articles a week. I've since reduced to 1 or 2 large pieces a year. And one of the reasons was exactly to rise above the many blogs that post small, fragmented articles, which could be generated in 2 minutes by ChatGPT. If I wanted to continue in that direction, I could be publishing 100 short articles a week with ChatGPT.
I started writing practical shader tutorials back in 2014 because there were not enough good, accessible resources online. I'm now focusing on large, in-depth pieces with original research, because that's what's valuable right now that ChatGPT has replaced StackOverflow.
If you appreciated this article, I hope you'll appreciate it even more knowing that YES, it was written by a human (it's me, hi!). <3
But I do want to say that this 'witch hunt' is OK. We should keep calling out AI content which is mostly effortless to keep actual effort by humans separate from this flood of content.
I think your sentiment is totally understandable. The internet is flooded with AI slop. But not all AI content is automatically slop.
We're moving into a new phase of the Internet were most (all?) content will eventually be touched by AI in some ways. Whether it's Grammarly fixing the grammar, ChatGPT coming up with content corrections, Claude helping with the code, and Copilot writing the integration tests.
And I don't necessarily see a problem with 100% AI content either, when it's actually good. Let's be honest: most people can't even write as eloquently as ChatGPT does! XD I think what I'm NOT ok with is someone pretending they didn't use AI when they did. But as long as the contribution is clearly labelled, I think I'd be ok with that!
The problem is that, like all "witch hunt"-adjacent phenomena, it inevitably gather momentum from haters and so-called "content destroyers". And this, paradoxically, will make creators (like me) less likely to make new original content.
I mean you just exhibited why we even have the term "witch hunt" and why it's recognized as a bad thing in the first place. You burned a witch who was not a witch.
I guess you must surely be fine with "we should keep calling out the low effort thoughtless critics attacking people who didn't harm them".