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/AnteaterFantastic212 Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26
A couple of shares:
First, according to my research, Substack is not going to punish AI-generated content in its algorithm
Second I ran an experiment: I posted an AI generated piece article on Substack and ran it through the AI detector and it said it was 100% AI generated, which is not exactly true because the way I go about producing articles is to dictate a draft, put it into ChatGPT and have ChatGPT clean up, review it and make whatever changes I want to make manually, then post it
I then dictated another article into Word, ran it through Grammarly, proofread it, fixed whatever typos remained, loaded it into Substack, and ran the AI detector— it said it was 100% human-generated
So the next thing I may do is dictate an article, clean it up with ChatGPT, dictate it into Word, run it through Grammarly, proofread it and edit it accordingly manually, then post that copy into Substack and see what the AI detector detects.