Hi, Michelle! To me, all AI detectors are pretty flawed, that's why they hedge and say it was aided by AI which can mean so many things. I've tried it on stuff I wrote by hand and it says 100% AI because of patterns in my writing. I tend to ignore it and focus on the value of the post itself.
Thanks for your response, Joel. Totally agree. I feel that there is a certain writing style that AI detectors focus on. My thoughts are so all over the place that when I write, I record myself talking using Otter.ai, and then I work with AI to take my messy thoughts and identify categories and key points. Then I use my own sources of knowledge to check whether my thoughts align with my personal knowledge base (what I have learned, experienced, read, etc.). I ask AI to write me an outline of whatever key point I want to write about and go back to http://Otter.ai to record myself talking about that specific topic. I give the transcript of my thoughts that are based on the AI outline to AI again so that I can work with AI to write the first draft. Once that is done, I edit, add, and make sure that what I’m writing uses my words and my thoughts. I’m a terrible speller so I have to run it through Grammarly and I have heard that the use of Grammarly will add to a higher AI detection. All that to say, I use AI in my writing; I don’t think I could write as much if I didn’t use it. It is my assistant writer, but it’s not at all AI slop. It is my thoughts, my ideas, helped by AI because I need it to help me focus on the topic, not write the topic for me.
I really appreciate this and was thinking these eight points could be applied to various areas of implementing AI as well. Thank you for putting this together, Ileana and Joel.
So what do you think of Substack's new AI writing detector? I tried it with this writing, and it gave a 100% written by AI analysis.
Hi, Michelle! To me, all AI detectors are pretty flawed, that's why they hedge and say it was aided by AI which can mean so many things. I've tried it on stuff I wrote by hand and it says 100% AI because of patterns in my writing. I tend to ignore it and focus on the value of the post itself.
Thanks for your response, Joel. Totally agree. I feel that there is a certain writing style that AI detectors focus on. My thoughts are so all over the place that when I write, I record myself talking using Otter.ai, and then I work with AI to take my messy thoughts and identify categories and key points. Then I use my own sources of knowledge to check whether my thoughts align with my personal knowledge base (what I have learned, experienced, read, etc.). I ask AI to write me an outline of whatever key point I want to write about and go back to http://Otter.ai to record myself talking about that specific topic. I give the transcript of my thoughts that are based on the AI outline to AI again so that I can work with AI to write the first draft. Once that is done, I edit, add, and make sure that what I’m writing uses my words and my thoughts. I’m a terrible speller so I have to run it through Grammarly and I have heard that the use of Grammarly will add to a higher AI detection. All that to say, I use AI in my writing; I don’t think I could write as much if I didn’t use it. It is my assistant writer, but it’s not at all AI slop. It is my thoughts, my ideas, helped by AI because I need it to help me focus on the topic, not write the topic for me.
I agree fully! I use wisprflow and exactly, use of ai comes in soooo many shapes and sizes
I really appreciate this and was thinking these eight points could be applied to various areas of implementing AI as well. Thank you for putting this together, Ileana and Joel.
Thank you Anna! Glad to hear you found it useful :)