Max Spero @max.pangram.com · 26/09/2026I consider games I played in my teens and early 20s as more formative than my childhood games (Zoo Tycoon, RuneScape, Neopets etc.). And somehow I have probably sunk as many lifetime hours into League of Legends as the rest of this list combined. 130
Reposted by Max SperoVauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I profiled the startup behind Pangram, the AI detector everyone’s talking about. It works really, really well. I wanted to understand how they did it. and also: why people still don’t trust them. (also, news: Penguin Random House is using it.) gift link! ✨bloomberg.comThe World’s Most Reliable AI Detector Has a Human ProblemArmed with a near-perfect detection tool, Pangram is fighting to convince the public AI cheating can be caught. 68342
Reposted by Max SperoAdam Leventhal @ahl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026On Monday, @bcantrill.bsky.social and I were joined by @max.pangram.com to discuss the social imperative of separating human- and AI-written content. There’s a big difference between being served home cooking and fast food!youtu.beOxide and Friends 8/31/2026 -- AI Detection with Max SperoYouTube video by Oxide Computer Company 4183
Reposted by Max SperoBryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Stoked to announce that @max.pangram.com, co-founder and CEO of @pangram.com, will be joining @ahl.bsky.social and me on the next episode of Oxide and Friends to pick up the hot (and important!) topic of AI detection. Join us, Monday, 5p Pacific! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...discord.ggJoin the Oxide Computer Company & Friends Discord Server!The Oxide Computer Company and friends; home of the Oxide and Friends podcast. | 5012 members 4405
Reposted by Max SperoSean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Pangram is surprisingly good. Teachers and graders should check it out. (And journal editors .) www.pangram.compangram.comAI Detector: Free AI Checker for ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini | PangramAI Detector for ChatGPT, Gemini & Claude — 99.98% Accurate. Detect AI-generated text in essays, articles & documents. Third-party verified results. 7437
Reposted by Max SperoWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The sudden release of an accurate AI-writing detector is going to have hilarious repercussions in politics and journalism, let me tell you. (It’ll also literally save higher education.) 2240159
Reposted by Max SperoWill Oremus @willoremus.com · 13/08/2026People have real qualms with AI detectors, and so do I, but the evidence is mounting that Pangram in particular very rarely gets it wrong (especially on longer chunks of text, but increasingly even on short ones). @brianx.bsky.social tested it and it didn't miss: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/t...nytimes.comI Tested a Popular A.I. Slop Detector. It Felt Empowering.Pangram excels at distinguishing chatbot-generated words from human writing. But it’s not reliable for spotting artificial images. 1424258
Max Spero @max.pangram.com · 13/08/2026Good question! Our technical report specifically looks into ESL, demonstrating no elevated false positive rate across any English language learner benchmarks 142
Reposted by Max Speroa wiki editor @aionwikipedia.bsky.social · 06/06/2026if you're going to post on bluesky complaining about how an AI detector flagged your writing as AI, then you probably should make sure that you're not on record talking about how you use AI for writing www.techdirt.com/2024/04/29/h...techdirt.comHow I Use AI To Help With Techdirt (And, No, It’s Not Writing Articles)Let’s start off this post by noting that I know that some people hate anything and everything having to do with generative AI and insist that there are no acceptable uses of it. If that describes y… 181
Max Spero @max.pangram.com · 06/06/2026Comments are off so I have to quote, but Pangram says that ~50% of segments have signs of AI. I highly doubt this is a false positive. @masnick.com can you confirm no AI use, or do you believe the indicated degree of AI use should be lower? www.pangram.com/history/17a3... 2160
Reposted by Max SperoVauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · 21/05/2026I talked to the head of the Commonwealth Foundation and to one of the accused writers in the Granta AI scandal — & also had the past 15 years of the prize run through Pangram, which flagged only four stories as containing AI: all from this year and last. [gift link!]theatlantic.comThis Literary AI Scandal Changes EverythingA magazine’s response to accusations of publishing AI-generated fiction points to a new phase in the struggle to keep literature human. 54617
Max Spero @max.pangram.com · 19/05/2026We just published a guest blog post from Joe Stech @thinkweirder.com: The Information Theory Behind Why AI Writing Sucks. Check it out! pangram.com/blog/joe-ste... 052
Max Spero @max.pangram.com · 27/04/2026Pretty cool analysis of AI use on Substack by @taylorlorenz.bsky.social 2215
Reposted by Max SperoTaylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 27/04/2026How Much of Substack Is Actually AI? I used @pangram.com (AI detection tool) to analyze thousands of posts from the top Substack newsletters across every category to find out. Here's what I discovered 👇🏻usermag.coHow Much of Substack Is Actually AI?I analyzed thousands of posts from the top newsletters to find out how much of Substack is AI. Some of the biggest “writers” on Substack aren’t writing at all. 1211319
Reposted by Max Sperothe beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Lately, Pope Leo has been sounding the alarm about the affect of AI on the human spirit. But several of his X posts on that subject—and others—appear to have been generated by AI.wired.comThe Pope’s Warnings About AI Were AI-Generated, a Detection Tool ClaimsPangram Labs’ updated Chrome extension puts warning labels on AI slop as you scroll your social feeds. 299414
Reposted by Max SperoRyan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 02/04/2026If you do this, or your company does this, the rest of society should treat you like someone who walked into Notre Dame and pooped on the altar. 1325
Max Spero @max.pangram.com · 22/03/2026Last year I met a writer who casually referenced "the AI-generated piece in the New York Times last week." I hadn't heard of it so asked for more info. She told me that she started reading it and immediately recognized the AI voice. "Of course that's chat. My bestie." 141
Reposted by Max SperoPangram Labs @pangram.com · 27/02/2026Pangram is releasing a new model today! Pangram 3.2 is a significant improvement over 3.1 in several aspects - Improved performance on 'humanized' text - Improved performance on adversarial prompts - Minimum word reduced from 75 to 50 - Overall improvement on Claude 4.6 recall 161
Max Spero @max.pangram.com · 07/02/2026ai dot com purchased for $70m. METR evals going exponential. former crypto grifters signalling we're in a bubble big labs signalling recursive self improvement I wonder, if the bubble pops, will it even matter? 220
Reposted by Max SperoGrace @gracekind.net · 04/02/2026I was going to write a whole effortpost about model evaluations but instead here, just take this chart 321888
Max Spero @max.pangram.com · 04/02/2026Digital ads are one of the greatest positive-sum technologies of the 21st century. Google Search has 4 billion users, and they make on average $40 per user per year. This type of business model couldn't exist without ads; Google cannot find 4 billion people who would pay $40 for ad-free search. 230
Max Spero @max.pangram.com · 31/01/2026Pretty cool project on /r/localllama - they take human written text and sloppify it 10x with 4o-mini, then train the model to de-slop by reversing the transformation 215714
Max Spero @max.pangram.com · 30/01/2026There are only two hard problems in computer science: building artificial superintelligence, and naming things 2665
Reposted by Max SperoYanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 29/01/2026🚨 New Study 🚨 @arxiv.bsky.social has recently decided to prohibit any 'position' paper from being submitted to its CS servers. Why? Because of the "AI slop", and allegedly higher ratios of LLM-generated content in review papers, compared to non-review papers. 2299
Max Spero @max.pangram.com · 25/01/2026so far I have found three separate tpot starter packs with nearly zero overlap. completely distinct ingroups. interesting 2361
Max Spero @max.pangram.com · 25/01/2026Hello bluesky.... its @max_spero_ on x dot com formerly twitter 160
