The 7 Strategies Medium Uses to Detect AI Writing

Dominic Medford
4 min readMay 21, 2024

The world seems to be in a frenzy about the emergence and swift dominance that Artificial Intelligence programs are playing in the current landscape. The need to combat the downfalls of this wave of innovation is the ability to effectively and efficiently detect the use of these programs. Here are some strategies that are likely being employed by companies such as Medium to detect this AI work from infiltrating the site at mass.

Make sure to read till the end for the key lesson from this investigation.

Medium, like many other online publishing platforms, has mechanisms to maintain the quality and integrity of its content. I am speaking about this from a place of certainty because I would find it unfathomable that a platform such as Medium hasn’t invested significant time and effort into managing the emerging AI encroachment into writing.

I will be the first to admit that I have dabbled with AI language models in conjunction with my writing. It cannot be understated the impressive nature of this technology to generate ideas, scaffold answers and edit text. There is work on the profile as You read this that has the fingerprints of AI.

What I do believe is important to combat is the blatant full-scale use of AI responses being posted on the site and being passed off as your on. This…

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Dominic Medford

Law and Political Sciences student in Australia who dabbles in writing about his thought processes in his spare time with the hope that it can be insightful.