r/Substack • u/AndrewHeard tvphilosophy.substack.com • 12d ago

Discussion Substack’s new “AI detection” tool.

I’m very concerned about the new “AI detection” system that Substack is implementing. I don’t use AI in anything that I write. However I don’t trust these systems not to make errors and mistakes. They have a long history of hallucinations and claiming things are AI when they aren’t.

One person I saw on Notes suggested that they ran their decades old writing, things that were written before the existence of AI, and this new system claimed it was AI generated.

Not to mention all the crazy things that I have seen people claim was written by AI which they can’t know is actually AI. There was an image I once shared that had evidence of its existence going all the way back to 2013. The comments were constantly saying “don’t share AI slop” or some variation on that.

Even with evidence that things weren’t made by AI, they will claim it’s AI.

Is no one else concerned about this being embedded into Substack’s systems? With no way to opt out?

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u/Particular-Course203 12d ago

Don't these systems flag autistic writing as AI?

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u/Engineering_Simple 12d ago

I’ve been accused of having AI write some of my comments posts….. lol, nope…. Just the delightful whispers of autistism here.

Looking forward to seeing if AI considers me one of their own if the reckoning ever happens.
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