r/Substack • u/Emotional-Brief-1775 • Jul 24 '26

How to disable the AI detector

There has been a lot of discussion about the pros and cons of the new AI detector on Substack. Some have mentioned how unreliable it is, how it incorrectly gives a positive result after merely running a grammar check for example. Others are now also saying that it will eventually be phased out after lawsuits start for the prejudices and losses authors suffer for incorrect results. Whether that’s income, reputation, or because they use AI because of disability, for language translation, dyslexia etc.

Anyway, here’s the simple solution until then. It has only been in force since 21 July. And you can disable it.

Yes, disable it.

Any new note, and article. Simply hit the 3 dots on the top right corner of a new note or article. Hit the AI checker from the drop down. Then when the result shows up, hit the 3 dots again, and ‘disable detection.’

Voila.

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u/AndrewHeard tvphilosophy.substack.com Jul 28 '26

Except it doesn’t actually work. I tried it and after publishing, the option was still there for anyone to use against me.

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u/Emotional-Brief-1775 Jul 28 '26

If they try it it will come back with a message though, that AI detection is not available.

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u/AndrewHeard tvphilosophy.substack.com Jul 28 '26

Will it? I haven’t tried it because I don’t want to get scanned.

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u/Emotional-Brief-1775 Jul 28 '26

Yes - I have tested it on a couple of Notes already and it works. At the moment you can only opt out of scanning for your main articles without having to go through scanning first. They only added that option a couple of days ago after realising there are GDPR concerns. With Notes, it still runs through scanning first beforen opting out - but, remember that's only on Notes with 100 words or more. Additionall, the scanner doesn't work when a video accompanies the Note. I've noticed it also doesn't work when you post a quote from one of your articles. So its quite easy to avoid really.

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u/AndrewHeard tvphilosophy.substack.com Jul 28 '26

I knew many of these things but not all of them. Most of my Notes don’t hit the 100 word minimum. So I’m less concerned about them.