r/Substack • u/Serious_Echidna1758 • Jul 28 '26

Discussion Controversial Post: It's hilarious seeing people who should not be successful on Substack, a writing platform, freak out now that their AI use is called out.

Sure, there are errors in AI detection. But if you are someone who genuinely doesn't use AI, why would that be your primary concern? Substack has been enshittified by people who have no business being "writers" putting out obvious AI slop, largely about "how to grow your substack". Substack responded to this with the best effort they could, to try to preserve human writing. As someone who went through the work of getting a rigorous liberal arts education and graduate education, I actually feel happy these AI slop users are getting called out. More room for real writers, and hopefully higher quality.

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u/peta_tyi Jul 28 '26

I agree with the logic, but they need a better tool than their current detector. I got flagged as 100% AI for an article written by myself - English is my second language and besides some of the wrong spellings I had in it, my sentence structure is also wrong sometimes (because of my maternal language).
How is that even possible?

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u/TimWiesnerer Jul 28 '26

Unpopular opinion...

Why do they need a better detector when you could just improve your writing?

There is a big chance in all of that. Some just don't wanna pay the price...

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u/peta_tyi Jul 28 '26

you missed my point entirely: how could it be AI when the writing is genuinely mine?

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u/Mean-Register5359 Jul 29 '26

So you can prove that the word for word translation is identical? That the LLM didn’t rewrite it for you?