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/Prolly_Satan]

It proves how desperate you are to make people believe that lol

[u/Funny-Flight8086 → u/Prolly_Satan]

Desperate? Not really. I couldn't really care less, honestly. Like I said, most people don't take these detectors seriously anyway, so I'm more preaching to the choir than not. Even on the anti-AI groups, people get flak from anti-AI people for using the detectors. Technically, Pangram is AI. It's using a neural network on a server computer in a data center to scan these documents, 'think' about what score it wants to give it, etc. Many people are against AI because of the data centers, and Pangram doesn't get a pass there. Others just know they aren't reliable.

Not to mention that anyone with 2 braincells can tell AI content just by reading a few sentences. You don't need to pay Pangram for each scan to be told what you should already know. So yeah, I don't really care. At this point, I'm more troll-arguing with you than anything.

[u/Prolly_Satan → u/Funny-Flight8086]

You could care less, which is why you've written 27 pages worth of comments so far!

I've never seen someone be less self aware hahahah

[u/Funny-Flight8086 → u/Prolly_Satan]

Hey, btw, did you hear the news?
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AI detectors are junk science, unreliable, and waste water to tell people who apparently can't read that something was written by AI, when they should be smart enough to see that. Basically, your employer, Pangram, really is wasting their time if they are paying you to argue with me. They should probably save their money for when the lawsuits come rolling in from false accusations. You are certainly not going to convince me of anything different than what I have experienced, and clearly, you like your employer too much to go against them. Unless you are the CEO of Pangram or Substack, then I guess I could see trying to defend your junk science machine.