Pangram Has Emerged as the Gold Standard of AI Detection. Should You Trust It?
Pangram is an AI startup with 24 employees, headquartered above a Popeyes in Brooklyn. It has raised $13 million to date—about 0.0072 percent of what OpenAI has—and was virtually unknown until earlier this year. But if Pangram is to be believed, it’s the one force standing in the way of a full machine takeover of the written word.
Pangram promises to detect how much AI was involved in the generation of any given text, and it does so as a best-guess percentage (using AI, of course). In January, speculation swirled on Reddit and YouTube that the author Mia Ballard may have used AI to write Shy Girl, a self-published novel picked up for traditional publication by Hachette. Although Ballard denied it, Pangram’s CEO posted on X that the book was 78 percent AI-generated. Hachette later canceled the release.
A barrage of similar accusations followed. The New York Times...
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