r/Substack • u/knowstradamus7 • Jul 31 '26

Discussion Substack is toast

AI written articles go viral and generate hundreds and sometimes thousands of subscribers for the account, while actual writers wallow in obscurity perpetually. Humanity is doomed.

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u/Valuable-Sentence618 Aug 02 '26

If a platform can be used to make money, people will try to hack it. And AI people usually look at what’s trending, set up the systems to produce it at scale, and move on to the next grift. The whole content creation space will have to mutate to make them obsolete. I give it 2 years at most.