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This week, Substack made an interesting move. The newsletter platform partnered with Pangram, an AI-writing detection software, to enable users to scan articles and comments to see how much estimated content was written by AI. I still don’t know how I feel about it. It’s borderline AI-shaming. The same tools that the tech bros of the world—running on high caffeine—built to increase productivity are now being treated like contraband. And I’m actually curious to see what use this serves.
If this is about research on AI dependence, I think there’s an obvious endline, and we’ll discover that a lot of Substack authors use AI for framing and getting brilliant arguments across. No harm in that. But tell me, are you excited at the prospect of counting Substack posts that use AI?
Full disclosure: at least this opening lede is 100% human-written. Even Pangram says so. 💀
