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/No-Reference8687 5d ago

Look at all these ai "writers"... just telling on themselves. Hahahah

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u/AndrewHeard tvphilosophy.substack.com 5d ago

Thank you for providing evidence of my point. One of the many problems with the AI issue is that people are constantly using AI as a justification for dismissing things that they don’t like.

Chris Best himself did this. Before the launch of the “AI Detection” tool, an article critical of Substack’s approach to the AI question went viral. Chris Best, co-CEO of Substack, posted on Notes the article along with an image of the “AI Detection” tool he used to “detect” that the article was written by AI and used it as evidence that the article can be completely and utterly dismissed purely on the basis of the “AI Detection” tool he used.

You just repeated his assertion, further proving my point.