Michigan congresswoman Haley Stevens published a nearly 900-word blog post on X defending her decision to withdraw support for Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and endorse Republican Mike Rogers instead. The AI-detection tool Pangram flagged the post as mostly AI-generated, and the text contains phrasing patterns commonly associated with chatbot writing, such as repeated 'not X, it's Y' constructions and rule-of-three lists.
futurism.com
· 2026-11-03
LinkedIn is deploying its own AI model, trained by a team of former journalists and social media experts, to detect and limit the reach of generic AI-written posts, according to CNN. A Pangram research report found over 40% of long-form LinkedIn posts are AI-generated, higher than on X, Medium, Reddit or Substack. LinkedIn also added a button letting users flag suspected AI slop, which was clicked more than 1 million times in its first two weeks after launching in August.
tech.slashdot.org
· 2026-10-18
An AI-detection tool called Pangram flagged an August Washington Post op-ed by Dartmouth provost Santiago Schnell, which criticized AI cheating, as likely LLM-generated, according to a Semafor report. A follow-up investigation by student paper The Dartmouth found the same tool identified nine other recent works by Schnell as largely AI-written. Schnell confirmed to The Dartmouth that he uses AI for 'language refinement, copyediting, improving clarity and organization,' while maintaining he develops the ideas, research and structure himself.
thefloatingcontinent.com
· 2026-10-16
A working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that nearly 30% of STEM PhD dissertation abstracts submitted in the US this year contained AI-generated text, up from under 2% in 2023. The study, which analyzed over 226,000 dissertations using the detection tool Pangram, also found that graduates whose dissertations showed AI-generated text were more likely to go into industry jobs and less likely to pursue academic careers.
nature.com
· 2026-10-16
The Consensus has built a lightweight detection tool that flags articles resembling AI-generated writing, integrating it directly into its site. Unlike commercial tools such as Pangram, which the publication already pays for but finds too costly to run on every submission, the new system relies on static rules comparing pre- and post-2023 writing patterns rather than machine learning. The tool labels content as merely resembling AI writing, not confirming it was AI-written, and the creator notes it has occasionally flagged his own articles.
theconsensus.dev
· 2026-10-14
Dartmouth College provost Santiago Schnell has acknowledged using AI chatbots while writing opinion pieces and academic articles, after a Semafor investigation flagged one of his Washington Post columns as 100 percent AI-generated by the Pangram detection tool. A follow-up analysis by student paper The Dartmouth found nine of his post-2022 works scored a median of 96 percent AI-written, compared to 100 percent human-written scores for his pre-ChatGPT work. Schnell maintains he retains full authorship, saying AI was used only for tasks like language refinement and copyediting.
futurism.com
· 2026-09-26
Pangram, an AI-detection service, has released a new integration for Gmail that scans incoming messages and flags those it believes were written by artificial intelligence. The tool aims to help users quickly identify AI-generated 'slop' mixed in with genuine human correspondence.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-09-17
Pangram has built a text and image classifier that determines whether content was authored by a human or generated by AI. The system tokenizes input text, converts tokens into vector embeddings, and passes them through a neural network with a classifier head that outputs a human, AI, or AI-assisted label. The model was trained on roughly one million documents combining publicly licensed human writing with AI-generated samples from GPT-5 and other frontier models.
pangram.com
· 2026-09-17
Tools such as Pangram and Originality.ai are being used to identify AI-generated writing, offering some clarity for educators, publishers and employers trying to spot machine-authored content. However, these detectors remain imperfect, producing errors that limit how much confidence users should place in their results.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-09-09
Pangram co-founder and CEO Max Spero appeared on TechCrunch's Equity podcast to discuss the complexities of detecting AI-generated content. The startup recently raised $9 million, partnered with Substack to flag AI-written newsletters, and launched a new tool for detecting AI-generated images.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-02
Pangram, a 24-person AI-detection startup that raised $13 million, has flagged high AI-generated percentages in several notable works, including a Hachette-acquired novel that was subsequently canceled, a New York Times Modern Love column, and prize-winning fiction. Substack recently integrated Pangram's detection tool so readers can check content for AI involvement.
wired.com
· 2026-09-02
LinkedIn introduced a feature letting users flag posts they suspect are low-quality AI-generated content, and more than a million people used it within the first two weeks. Chief product officer Hari Srinivasan said member views of flagged AI content have dropped 40% since the tool launched, though he acknowledged more work remains.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-08-27
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