I Am a Writer.

Apparently, AI wrote 64% of MY article.

I wrote down on a piece of paper years ago these words:

I am a writer.

I have kept that on my desk ever since. It’s my daily reminder of one of the things that I know that I know God has called me to do.

I have carried this with me since I was in my 30s.

Never in a million years would I have thought I’d be a writer. A songwriter, yes, but not a writer of articles, books or blogs. But I knew without a doubt it was something the Lord was calling me to do.

Through the years, I’ve had to learn to tune out the lies of the enemy and even my own voice when it tries to tell me otherwise. It takes a crazy level of discipline to keep showing up faithfully every week, but I will admit, it’s like a fire shut up in my bones. I cannot tell you how much joy it brings me to do this.

There is something about writing unfiltered, unveiled and from the heart—revealing my own life journey, spiritual victories and even the seasons when I have literally fallen flat on my face—that keeps me showing up. I feel so compelled to share these real-life stories and what God has revealed, and is continually revealing, to me in hopes of giving you, the reader, hope, encouragement, a good laugh and inspiration in your own walk with God.

That, to me, is everything.

Having said that, this week I discovered that Substack now allows subscribers and readers to scan articles for AI-generated content. From what I have read, the opinions surrounding these detectors are very mixed because human writing can sometimes carry the same patterns that AI has learned to reproduce—which, in the first place, came from real writers. When that happens, the detector may label something as AI-written even when it was written by a person.

What is interesting is that just a week ago, I read a post from another best-selling author after someone accused her work of being written by AI.

Her response was so good.

She reminded her readers that when something “looks” like AI writing, we need to remember that AI learned how to write by studying real writers. Real writers did not learn how to write from AI.

And that is exactly why these detectors can get it wrong more times than not.

I decided to drop one of my recent Substack articles into the AI detector that Substack uses, and honestly, my jaw dropped when it said my article was 64% AI-written.

I won’t lie, that upset me deeply.

But then, on the flip side, I had to laugh because I am the one who wrote the ENTIRE article, not AI.

So guess what I did?

I made a few very minor changes to the structure of the article, dropped it back into the AI detector app, and it went down to saying it was 100% human written.

Truly unbelievable.

Here’s what I want you to know, because I feel it has to be said: I do use AI as a tool, and it has helped me greatly with grammar. Believe it or not, I was an average C student in English class who struggled—and still struggles at times—to understand sentence structure, so the fact that I eventually became a writer probably would have surprised all of my English teachers.

Myself included.

That’s why when the Lord started nudging in my spirit, “You’re a writer...,” I couldn’t help but respond, “Are You sure about that, Lord? Don’t You remember the deep struggle I had understanding English back in school?”

Because of that, I often use AI after I have written something to help me check grammar, clarity and sentence structure. It may offer a suggestion for how a paragraph could be reframed so it is easier to understand, and sometimes I will use that suggestion. But that does not mean AI wrote the article.

I did.

The idea is mine.
The story is mine.
The journey is mine.
The writing is mine.

The spiritual growth, the Scripture study, the questions, the wrestling and the message all come from my own life with God.

So I want you to know: what I write for Unfiltered Faith—and anywhere else you see my name—is written by me.

I am a writer.

Blessings, my friend,

~ Tracee