Substack adds an AI detector to help spot blogs written by no one
Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO.Substack will now help users determine whether what they’re reading may have been written by AI. “The core problem is not people using AI, or the quality of its output,” Best writes. “The problem is when there is a mismatch between a reader’s expectation and reality, especially when they unwittingly invest their attention in something with no human thought on the other end.
- ▪Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO.Substack will now help users determine whether what they’re reading may have been written by AI.
- ▪“The core problem is not people using AI, or the quality of its output,” Best writes.
- ▪“The problem is when there is a mismatch between a reader’s expectation and reality, especially when they unwittingly invest their attention in something with no human thought on the other end.
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| Original publisher | The Verge |
| Canonical URL | https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/968855/substack-pangram-ai-detecting-tool |
| Publication time | 2026-07-21T15:22:28-04:00 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-21T19:41:53.745Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-21T19:41:53.745Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
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| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
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| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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