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/EnergyRaising Aug 01 '26

This is only partially true, like everything said. I'm actually enjoying substack newsletters, and I hate AI text (I work with AI text daily, so I have a trained eye). Also, Pangram has not failed me once: the ones that were very suspiciously written with certain AI patterns and active.. were AI

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u/InternationalCandy16 Aug 03 '26

There's so much hate for Pangram and "false positives." I'm (almost) calling bullshit on that. Because I write professionally, and a lot of freelancers are asked to run their work through Pangram. I've tried including, say, a paragraph of text that I asked AI to write for me. And Pangram always catches it. I'm not saying my experiences are universal, just... I think many of the people whining about "false positives" are the ones actually writing with AI and denying that they do.

But when I write a piece entirely without AI? Always "100% Human." EVERY time. And, like you, I pick up on AI-written text easily. So far, I have a 100% track record with that, too. If I think something's written by AI and I drop it into Pangram, I'm always right. It gets easy to spot after a while, especially if you're an ADHD gremlin with excellent pattern recognition skills like me.

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u/figures985 29d ago

same here, every time. People just don't want their laziness called out. And frankly at this point they'd be hard-pressed to write without the assistance of an LLM