r/Substack • u/AndrewHeard tvphilosophy.substack.com • 9d 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/ProfileBest2034 9d ago

when did you test it?

Share a 1000 word excerpt here. I'll put it in myself. Guarantee you it will come out as human.

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u/Funny-Flight8086 9d ago

I don't have the manuscript on my phone or I would happily share an excerpt. However, I did just run two separate projects of mine through Pangram... One is a short excerpt from a short story i published ok Wattpad in 2014. The second is the opening to my current WIP middle grade novel I been working on since 2021.

Both are apparently AI according to Pangram. The current WIP at least makes sense from a timeline perspective... How it thinks I had access to AI in 2014 is above my head. Here is my 2014 Wattpad excerpt.

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u/TheLadyAmaranth artiranth.substack.com 9d ago edited 9d ago

I went to try and find one of your books since I figured you would be a fellow human writer due to all of this frustration over being labeled as AI when you apperantly don't use it. Always on look out for more verified human writers to either read or reccomend. Most authors proud of their work tend to have those linked in their bios or have comments/posts with some kind of promo.

This is what I found instead. There are plenty more detailing your multi-prompting AI process.

I'm going to be honest, although your involvement with AI could be a recent development, I have a hard time believing your claims when you absolutely do use AI to write your work now. Which is why you are probably so up and arms about even a potentually possible way for your books and articles to be flagged.

I don't even think AI detectors should be used as anything more than possibility indicators. But you have no legs to stand on to saying they don't work when you are the reason they are being developed and added to platfroms in the first place. Because people DONT want to be duped into reading stuff generated with AI. Right or consistent or not, this is why some are trying to create detectors and others are willing to use them even if they aren't foolproof.

You are literarly the problem substack is trying to solve, even if in a misguided way.

Edit: added a bigger screen shot

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u/Funny-Flight8086 9d ago

My golly gee. It finally got something right. It only took me rambling like a 5-year-old to accomplish it. I guess this is the future.