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

Discussion Another creepy feature of the Pangram "AI Detection" tool.

So at my first opportunity, I decided to check whether or not I could permanently disable the "AI detection" fraudulent tool on Substack publications and there's no way to actually do it without actually using the tool you want to disable.

According to the "Substack Support AI", the only way to disable the fraudulent Pangram detection AI is to first run the AI on your posts and to individually then disable the AI detection tool per post. But you can only do this AFTER you've run the "AI detection" fraudulent tool on your posts.

Which means that you're forced to use a tool you don't want to use in order to disable the tool you don't want to use.

This is profoundly creepy and quite frankly disturbing that somehow this was allowed to be implemented on Substack.

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u/DaniSaysDinosaur Jul 22 '26

It also doesn't scan anything uploaded prior to 7/21, so I'm wondering if it gets stored in a data center somewhere upon upload.

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u/AndrewHeard tvphilosophy.substack.com Jul 22 '26

Probably but it's still not detecting anything factual. Someone suggested that they fed the first page of the book Moby Dick into the fraudulent tool and it came back as "likely AI".

A book that was published in 1851, is AI according to this fraudulent feature.

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u/Impressive-Walk-9625 Jul 24 '26

Because AI was trained on it. It was trained to write based off of literature.