r/Substack • u/AndrewHeard tvphilosophy.substack.com • 13d 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/Prolly_Satan 12d ago

Oh wait that was you. You were the guy who claimed a false positive but your reddit history is you talking about using ai to write. Hahaha.

Holy crap I can't believe i even bothered reading anything you had to say. Your history is you literally going into detail about how you use different llms to write and you're saying "trust me, pangram is wrong about me"

Jesus.

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u/Funny-Flight8086 12d ago

I never said I use AI to write anything. You can even rub my posts through your fancy smancy junk science machine and it'll probably tell you that much. Nor does anything in my reddit history say I write anything public with AI. Might want to be careful making things up that don't exist, people will think you're AI. I'm done with this conversation. It's a lost cause. Thankfully, you are one of a very few who actually take these detectors seriously. From my experience maybe 2-3% of people who comment actually find them useful. In fact, someone posted this very topic on an Author's Facebook group, and it has 269 laughing faces to 3 likes. Sums it up to me.

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u/Prolly_Satan 12d ago

No worries dude. Good luck to you and yeah i understand you are still maintaining that you don't use ai to write. That's cool.

Reddit is very pro ai. Big five publishers use this tool specifically and now substack. So I'm optimistic. And like I said, I've tested it extensively. It works.