AI content keeps getting removed from medium and substack what to do - and it's not a coincidence. Platforms are intentionally and strategically taking measures to defend their ecosystem from what they believe to be a rush of substandard, deceptive content—and writers who lack the knowledge of how the system operates are the unintended casualties.

Here's the situation: AI is not the issue at all.

This is an addressing whether or not the problem is how it is being used and whether readers can trust what they are reading.

Medium and Substack Policies: What Have They Really Changed Their Mind About?

Both sites have come a long way in terms of how they approach content moderation on Medium over the past two years; policymakers' positions are more complex than you may think.

Medium's response: Medium changed its policies to state that authors had to mention any content generated by AI.

Writers need to explicitly identify any work that was largely designed by the use of AI tools.

However, the more serious challenge lies in quality enforcement—Medium's curation team will select out or demote content deemed to be unoriginal, monotonous, or conceptually inaccurate.

More aggressive policies from Medium's Partner Program (which pays on writer engagement) has resulted in many articles with excess AI being ineligible for the writers to be paid for.

The main issue for the platform is reader trust.

Medium has established itself on its 'authentic human perspective', and a lot of AI generated stuff quickly damages that one.

Substack regulations for writers are playing a bit of a different game:

As a newsletter-first platform built on relationships with individual creators, Community Guidelines are content heavy around Voice and authentic communication.

Substack doesn't have an outright ban on AI altogether, but it does have rules on spam and misinformation that both can trigger under its policies.

Substack also forbids content that is "deceitful or misleading".

And publishing AI 'content' as your 'personal writing'? Flopping it across the line, surely—as a premium subscriber, thinking they are getting your personal insights and intelligence.

Why Content Is So Often Removed

Knowing the actual reasons for content being removed can help writers steer clear of the same issues.

One isn't usually one thing.

Examples include - Disclosure violations—failing to label the output as AI where platform policies mandate it- Quality thresholds—content that is factually accurate but also bland, generic, or entirely templated- Factual inaccuracies—AI hallucinations that concoct erroneous information (which platforms view as serious prevarications)- Spam patterns—mass publishing in a short span of time stuffs the algorithm- Copyright concerns—AI creations in near-copycat similarity to training data trigger copyright considerations- Community reports—users flagging publication as AI generated and duplicitous

The volume issue is substantial.

Certain developers found out that they were able to upload 50 articles monthly using AI tools and experienced sudden increases in traffic.

Then the sites got wise.

Accounts were banned, articles were taken down, and in some instances, writers were deprived of monetization indefinitely.

The Implications for Content Creators

The consequences are really severe—not merely in relation to the articles but more broadly.

Damage to reputation spreads more rapidly than the majority of our creators anticipate.

Serendipitously, readers feeling conned don't take any more subtle actions, but ransack the site via a series of painful clicks, then move on.

Even a single callout post tagged to a hashtag, can erase years of audience-building in an instant.

The loss of monetization is generally irreversible.

A) Medium's Partner Program exclusion: B) Substack subscription refunds: Both have long-term implications.

Reinstatement may be challenging but is an option if there has been a violation of the policy.

Additional problems arise at the platform level.

The helpful content updates from Google have specifically targeted AI written content that is lacking in personal knowledge or authority.

So a creator could potentially lose both a platform distribution and search visibility at the same time - a double whammy.

For writers who've sculpted their identity around a niche, the trust hole can be career-ending.

Readers of a paid Substack newsletter about, for example, money management or mental health are trusting the writer's "real-life expertise and judgment".

Finding out the content was generated by AI when not told—it's like a betrayal, because really it kind of is.

AI Content Keeps Getting Removed What to Do: Ways to Play It Safe

Keep in line with platform regulations: you don't have to give up all AI resources.

It means making effective use of them.

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Disclose clearly and early Do not hide disclosure in a footer.

Identify whether you relied heavily on the use of AI tools in creating your work. If yes, please mention it in the beginning.

Something direct is effective: " I have had some sections of this article written with AI tools, then I have read, edited, and added in my own research and perspective." Readers value honesty more than most creators anticipate.

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Use AI as a drafting helper rather than as a publishing robot The most defendable working flow would be using AI to produce an atomic structure or a highly disturbed first draft, then rephrasing it profoundly.

Add your own examples.

Add in something that only you would know to make it very personal.

Use articles where points are based on your experience, allowing you to apply your knowledge in a practical context.

By the time you're finished, the work should sound like you--because more or less it is you.

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Fact-check every single thing, mind-numbingly AI hallucinate.

Statistics get manipulated.

There's a mistyping of names.

Dates be wrong.

Before publication, fact-check every statement that is made with an AI by consulting the original sources.

It's not optional. The table stakes for responsible publishing.

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Keep a consistent, familiar voice Platforms and readers will notice a halt and switch.

If after publishing your 30 prior articles you suddenly publish a piece that reads as dry and monotonic as a corporate white paper, then you've got a problem.

Edit AI drafts so they truly sound like you.

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Avoid volume spikes Publishing 3 articles a week when you normally publish 1 will pick up algorithmic attention.

No matter how high quality they are, a sudden rise in volume could be pattern-matched as spam.

Grow steadily.

Practical Tips for Writers

How to make the most of AI without wrecking your account and reach—you'll learn from writers who've figured out how to use these tools successfully.

During the learning process and to synthesize research, utilize an artificial intelligence tool (or similar) not for submitting a finished copy of the report.

Feed it 10 sources and get an outline of main arguments, 2 points from each.

And then see if you can write the article by yourself from that synthesis

Have the AI require the outlines and to put structure on the writing part.

This rapidly increases the rate of production but does not elicit disclosure problems, such as those seen with AI-produced text.

Have everything you put out in the world read through your own editorial filter before publishing it.

Ask: does this sound like me? Does it give the reader something I can't? Is each point information I can independently verify? - Build in a cooling off period - do an AI draft, leave it for a day and then do a second draft.

Distance allows you to see where it sounds generic.

Speak to your reader directly—through comments and replies.

Real interaction with your community indicates real humanity and will create good will that defend you if questions are ever asked about your content.

Record the process you used privately.

Use this as a reminder of how you have used AI for each piece.

If your platform should ever challenge your content, keeping a secure record of your editorial role can be helpful.

-**Any new and significant discoveries—any original research—should be published on the web for easy access.

Select and implement a survey.

Interview data collection 125, attempt interviewing a person to find out what they think.

Perform the experiment.

Original data is something that AI fundamentally cannot generate and it truly makes your content significantly irreplaceable.

The Bigger Picture

They aren't going anywhere.

Platforms are aware of this.

Neither Medium nor Substack want to ban AI outright - rather, they're trying to safeguard what makes them valuable: genuine human perspective readers can trust in.

The successful writers are those who approach AI as a set of tools, as infrastructure, and not a question of who they are.

Use it to increase your speed, improve the depth of your research, and banish blank-page paralysis.

But never let it replace your actual thinking, your true perspective, your authentic connection with your readers.

Honestly, the best AI content is what you can't tell was assisted—the editorial oversight was so careful that the final piece could so easily have been a human effect.

That's the value to which we should be striving.

And it is totally feasible.