17 August 2026
Substack partners with AI detection company Pangram
- Substack has integrated Pangram's detection technology to identify AI-written content on its platform and discourage its publication.
- The detection system is imperfect and may flag some human-written content as AI-generated, creating false positives.
- The partnership reflects a choice to prioritize human authorship over perfectly accurate detection, accepting some innocent writers will be caught.
How it was covered
The Algorithmic BridgeAlberto Romero
Substack has partnered with Pangram, an AI detection company, to identify and discourage AI-generated writing on the platform. The newsletter argues this is a necessary and largely positive step to combat AI slop, despite acknowledging that detection systems are imperfect and some innocent writers may be incorrectly flagged. The author frames it as sending a cultural message that 'writing should be human again' and sees acceptable collateral damage as preferable to allowing AI-generated content to proliferate unchecked.