AI is Destroying Competitive Programming. In fact, the battle between humans and machines began the moment AI was born.

The capability of artificial intelligence has gradually increased since its inception, and now it has reached a level comparable to CF 2000+. Competitive programming, after the birth of AI, has gradually started to seem meaningless. If, in a contest, an AI scores higher than most human participants, what enjoyment and challenge does CP still offer?

Methods of cheating in CP have evolved from copying answers and sharing solutions to using AI to solve problems. If cheaters employ more sophisticated methods, it has become almost impossible to determine whether a piece of code was written by a human or a machine.

The emergence of AI has also made it easier for those who want to disrupt online judges. They use AI with a large number of fake accounts in an attempt to overwhelm the judging systems. Nowadays, accessing platforms like CF or AtCoder almost always requires passing a Cloudflare challenge. The internet, under the impact of AI, has finally transformed from an open space into a heavily restricted and inconvenient place.

AI, I despise you.

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