When you start a new game in the Witcher 3 - Next Gen update (I don't know if the bug is present in the original or not), as the camera pans downwards and we see the wooden tub underneath Geralt's legs, the center of the tub exhibits jumpy black voids of nothing rendered. It happens whenever there are closeups of the nearest sections of the tub. The bug is only present in the GI instance of the shader, not in the non-GI instance. I tracked it down to a potential divide by zero that wasn't guarded against:
Current:
float contrast = dot(luma,(c-sharp_diff)/(bounce_area.rgb+gi.rgb));
Bug-fixed:
float contrast = dot(luma,(c-sharp_diff)/(bounce_area.rgb+gi.rgb+0.00001));
I'm thinking that with the tub right up against the camera, there must be both zero bounce area and zero gi, so it was dividing by zero and causing the artifacts? Guarding with +0.00001 fixes it and the artifacts go away.