Something has come up a couple of times recently and I’d like to quickly address it once and for all.
My website, www.CascadeTubes.com, has changed a lot since its inception in 2013. Over the intervening years I’ve added a lot of projects and content. As I write this I have over twenty different projects posted and many supporting articles and analyses. This is all my own work. Anytime I have used another’s design as a starting point, I’ve given full credit to the originator. I’ve done this for three projects, all headphone amplifiers.
Everything on this site is my own work. Every design, every build, every picture, every test plot, every written word is the work of my own hands. I NEVER use AI of any kind. I do not use writing tools. I took every picture myself. I do not doctor photos beyond simple rotation and cropping. And I explain the process responsible for every project as much as is practical. In short, every word you read on this website I wrote myself. It is all my own work.
I understand that the internet is changing. And I understand that there are now many websites that are turning to machine generated content. CascadeTubes.com is not one of them. As long as I have this website, it will continue to be 100% human generated and will all be my own work.
As I said, I just wanted to put this issue to rest. I do not claim the work of others as my own. And nothing I post is now, or ever will be, machine generated. Everything posted here, good or bad, is solely my work and my responsibility.
On closing, I think this is just an indication of where the modern internet is going. As more LLM tools are used to generate content, and more and more bots are pushing internet traffic, people will increasingly have difficulty distinguishing between machine generated content and true human effort. The internet has changed a lot since I sent my first ARPANet email in 1983 on the Michigan Terminal System. And where it has gone has not always been good. But such is the nature of technology.
As always, questions and comments are welcome.
Good for you Matt and shows pride in your work. I have been using it at my job and home for simple things such as proof-reading summarising long documents. There is not much time saving for me as like to fully read everything to check the facts anyway but new generations may be educated otherwise. The technology has a long way to go to be fully trustworthy. However if the technology is “learning” from all the good and misguided material humans have placed on the internet, I hope it can distinguish between the two to ensure positive progress.