alt Hacker NewsI understand that a big portion of online content is now 100% AI-generated, and that can be somewhat problematic. But for creators like me, who have been publishing articles and books for over 10 years, this AI witch hunt can be quite demotivating.
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
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I enjoyed the article, and thank you for sharing it. Don't be demotivated by the current AI witch hunt, which I see as a form of tribal signaling that will pass.
This is unbelievably good work, thank you for writing it!
Same - very good article.
Then I am very sorry about that, I feel bad and should read more carefully next. I only glanced at first few paragraphs and encountered this line which is a very common LLM trope. I could see that article is long and has lots of images and other stuff but I could see em dashes too. As no one else had said that yet, I did.
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.