SCAMMING SUBSTACK?

Summary from the TLDR AI newsletter

Many viral Substack essays carry telltale signs of artificial authorship — what one author calls the "Impersonal Universal" voice characterized by anonymous bylines, predictable anecdotes, and formulaic contrasts (“It's not X - it's Y!”). While human Substack authors bemoan the lackluster prose, the greater concern is not the artistic purity of the profession but the eyes and subscription revenues that might otherwise go to better, authentic writers.