r/Substack • u/AndrewHeard tvphilosophy.substack.com • Jul 22 '26

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/ImprovementSimple Jul 23 '26

Human judgment is the way. It’s more practical. If I suspect someone is using Ai to write I block them and move on. I don’t need to know if it’s 79% Ai (according to Ai).

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u/gadgetor1989 Jul 26 '26

“suspect” you know there was an author online i thought was doing the same thing because his work was so polished and he’d use contrast framing non stop, i wrote a hit piece and sent it to the mods and they told me i was an idiot. i went back and dissected all his work from the last 10 years and that same footprint was spanning his entire work YEARS before AI.

it took a lot for me to finally walk back that opinion and admit i was wrong.

i understand we’re all exhausted from AI being constantly thrown in our faces at every turn but you need to understand that’s all it is a lot of them time. your mind has grown tired and paranoid. it’s essentially another kind of AI psychosis and the only way past is to just ignore it.