Substack adds an AI reviewer to help check blogs written by anyone

Substack will now help users determine if the content they are reading may have been written by AI. A new tool that comes to the platform can look at articles, articles, responses, and comments to see how many articles can be created by AI or written with the help of AI. to a blog post published on Tuesday.

The device is controlled and an AI recognition company called Pangram and is available online with an iOS app, with an Android version “coming soon.” Readers can scan content longer than 100 words by selecting the “Scan for AI text” option from the three dots in the top right corner of the post.

Substack co-founder and CEO Chris Best says the Pangram integration means increasing visibility on the platform as AI becomes more common on social media. “The real problem isn’t the people who use AI, or the type of it,” Best writes. “The problem is when there is a discrepancy between what the readers expect and the reality, especially when they unknowingly focus on something that does not have a human perspective on the other side.

In line with this change, Substack will also allow developers to explain how they write to readers with the “How I make this” statement. Authors can analyze their text with Pangram, too, and will have the option to report incorrect results.

The best note is that “Pangram can detect if AI was used to create the text, not if human capital created it, or if AI tools were used as a resource.” But the goal, according to Best, is to make it easy for someone to decide to invest their time in reading a blog post. “When readers wonder if what they’re reading is real, it undermines trust in authors and threatens the lives of authors — including those who use AI tools thoughtfully to create work they believe in,” Best writes. “Platforms that offer false rewards will create a race to the bottom.”