The Scammers in the Room
AI Content Detectors are marketed and sold as a sort of truth serum for writing. They’re capable of separating human prose from machine-generated text, but there’s no digital watermark, no hidden signature to find. All they do is check how predictable your writing is, and if your sentences are too structured or grammatically correct, they’re flagged as AI.
We’ve spent the last four days writing, editing, re-writing, and doing even more editing on this statement. Multiple people worked on it.
Pangram Labs says it is 100% AI created.
They aren’t neutral arbiters of truth; they’re biased, algorithmic guillotines using digital discrimination to neuter the author’s voice, to replace it with sterilized, corporate approved estimations of thought.
They don’t detect shit, they just…guess.
OpenAI shut down its own classifier because, wait for it, it wasn’t accurate. So, if they can’t identify the output, why trust some third-party, who offers 100% guarantees, but no evidence to support it?
Companies like Pangram Labs sell a fallacious product. They’re not a scientific institution; they’re a marketing firm guaranteeing accuracy when their product can only guess.
They’re opportunistic vultures, and it’s all a grift.
People making a living on Substack need to acknowledge the red flags and take heed.
Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence data is staggering: over 61% of essays written by non-native English speakers are misclassified as AI-generated.
It’s digital discrimination being sold as “quality control.”
Orion Newby v. Adelphi University made it clear; punishing someone based on unverified AI flags is meritless, fundamentally biased, which opens companies up to myriad legal disasters from Defamation, Trade Libel, Breach of Contract, Wrongful Termination, Discriminatory Practice and EEOC Violations.
Substack doesn’t even have a human review process for disputes. You get a useless fucking AI scanner that’s incapable of accuracy, scanning your work, and then guessing, but hey; you can always submit feedback that no one will ever read.
Pangram Labs and Substack now jeopardize the livelihoods of legitimate writers, authors, and content creators who rely on this platform for income.
It’s unethical, unprincipled, and unprofessional.
Our decision to abandon Substack as a legitimate platform has never been easier to make, and we are doing so with a level of visceral disgust and disdain that borders on the pathological.
We refuse to let our work be fed into a second-rate algorithm that turns human intuition, imagination, and creativity, into something skeptical and suspicious, and we also believe, with absolute conviction, that any platform prioritizing the detection of humanity over the actual presence of it is a platform that deserves to wither and cease to be.
