Hey hackers!
The HackerNoon editorial team has been quite vocal about the use of AI in story submissions, as in, please don’t use AI to generate text willy nilly. While there are acceptable ways to use AI (for research, grammar, idea generation etc.), getting ChatGPT, Deepseek (lol), or <enter tool name here> to do the work for you is not an appropriate way to publish at HackerNoon.
Today, as part of our efforts to better handle AI-generated content, we’re upgrading our AI detector from Originality.ai to Pangram. Some of you might have already heard of Pangram, but the tool came under HackerNoon’s radar after an excellent deep-dive by Wired on the proliferation of AI-generated content on other major publishing platforms.
As we’ve said so before, HackerNoon really isn’t about that life. AI generated content is almost always devoid of any soul and is a disservice to our readers who rely on HackerNoon to read, learn, and share. Tools like Originality, and now Pangram, will help the editorial team more accurately determine whether a given submission is AI generated or not.
Based on our internal testing, Pangram appears to add a layer of depth to detecting AI generated content by specifying the tool a given text is likely to have originated from (example below). HackerNoon editors have already been using the tool and have been impressed by it so far.
As a general reminder, the HackerNoon editorial team is aware that AI detection tools are not 100% accurate, and thus also reviews texts based on their merits. At the end of the day, the tool serves as a supplement to the editorial team’s day-to-day workflow and our own human editors are pretty well versed at sniffing out lackluster content.
To clarify, we are not prohibiting authors from utilizing AI entirely. Using AI for assistance, such as improving grammar or prose, is entirely acceptable. If an author openly acknowledges and describes their use of AI, we will gladly review their content.
Hope this helps,
Happy writing!
