Substack Has Installed AI-Detection
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Risk of false positives? Sure . . . at the rate of 1 in 10,000, supposedly.
I wildly applause it but it's internecine warfare, right? Aren't all things digital kinda in a nasty gay-orgy-like king-sized bed together in an attempt to destroy the human race? That's my understanding.
Maybe Substack has gone rogue and is kicking against its colleagues. Substack, after all, is so fine and virtuous, the folks at deader-than-Stalin Medium.com say it's Fascist. Medium was the platform whose own algorithms impaled the site on a stake of woke, so when its president says "Substack has a Nazi problem," anyone with even the shittiest Rosetta Stone can translate that to, "Substack is pure, virginal, dedicated to freedom of expression, and the first digital platform with a legitimate shot at canonization by the Catholic Church."
Also: Marc Andreesen financially backed Substack and praises it. To my knowledge, he's the only person to discuss the thought of Eric Voegelin on the Joe Rogan Experience.
So yeah, I like Substack and wildly applaud this move, even if I can't haul myself to fully support any digital platform any more than I can haul myself to drink at a trough of urine.
And if Substack were to introduce alternatives to the loathsome and increasingly loathed subscription model that sluices cash into its vaults, I'd consider it (giving full support, not the trough thing).
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