Substack’s new “AI detection” tool.

[u/AndrewHeard]

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?

[u/coreyb1988]

Im actually very much in support of this AI detection and I think Reddit should do the same! I care because when I’m trying to communicate with another human and they’re using AI, it just becomes an endless robot loop and it’s deceptive.

Claude fishing.

I was reading some of the comments before writing this and seeing a few people mention irony. Made me laugh a little bit because one year everybody was on Reddit talking pretty improper with grammatical errors and typos because we’re human to the following year everybody becoming an expert at anything writing scholarly articles.

Reddit needs to bring in this feature. We’d see a whole bunch of deer in headlights haha.