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
Max Spero @max.pangram.com · 13/08/2026Sharing our results on writing from english language learners below! bsky.app/profile/max.... 010
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 · 13/08/2026pangram-public.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/pdf/pangram_...pangram-public.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com 010
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
Max Spero @max.pangram.com · 07/06/2026I’m not convinced this was a light edit, as much as he would like to have us believe. Showed the text to a friend and they immediately said “claudeslop.” But we have some ideas on differentiating between full ai and actual light edits 050
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 · 23/05/2026Hey! Max from Pangram here. I can confirm that 1) we only train on data that we have a proper license for 2) no commonwealth essays are in our training set 140
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 · 28/04/2026Well, thats probably because she clearly disclosed that it was a sponsored post 000
Max Spero @max.pangram.com · 28/04/2026This was sponsored! I don’t think that should discredit any findings - we are specifically looking to enable journalists and researchers with more resources to do good work 010
Max Spero @max.pangram.com · 27/04/2026Great analysis! Glad you used our API - always happy to support research like this 110
Max Spero @max.pangram.com · 27/04/2026Pretty cool analysis of AI use on Substack by @taylorlorenz.bsky.social 2215
Max Spero @max.pangram.com · 27/04/2026Care to share? + did you use any ai in the process? Happy to take a look and dig deeper 120
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
Max Spero @max.pangram.com · 22/04/2026But long story short the biggest thing that suffers on short text is FNR - there is simply not enough signal to say that something is AI for most short text, and in the absence of ai signal we predict human 000
Max Spero @max.pangram.com · 22/04/2026I still don't think Pangram's performance on short form text is as bad as you imply. I'm working on an eval that we can share shortly 200
Max Spero @max.pangram.com · 22/04/2026my evaluation remains the same, which is that it's clear that the pope's social media person is using some degree of AI to assist their writing, to the point where it's showing up on Pangram somewhat regularly 000
Max Spero @max.pangram.com · 22/04/2026I'm actually not sure why you don't see a confidence measure in your screenshot. When I check the same text I see "Confidence Low" Will look into this 110
Max Spero @max.pangram.com · 22/04/2026I see your criticism of 51 words being checkable but 49 words not being checkable, but we need to draw a line somewhere. Currently, our model is only trained on text 50 words and up so it would be irresponsible to provide a model output to the consumer on less than that. 100
Max Spero @max.pangram.com · 22/04/2026Happy to address the items in the thread from the top down. 1) Pangram does not have the granularity to tell you if, on a sentence- or word-basis a given unit is AI-generated. The unit we operate on is ideally ~200 words but obviously there is demand for results on shorter text 200
Max Spero @max.pangram.com · 22/04/2026I'm not particularly consistent about it but it probably has to do with whether I'm on mobile or desktop 000
Max Spero @max.pangram.com · 22/04/2026it's worth noting that the u chicago paper found no false positives at our actual threshold of 0.5, but used their own, lower threshold for the paper that maximized their own FPR/FNR tradeoff (Pangram treats a false positive as 10x as bad as a false negative when finding thresholds) 100
Max Spero @max.pangram.com · 22/04/2026is this an actual false positive? because I've seen people do something like this just to troll 100
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
Max Spero @max.pangram.com · 03/04/2026hi im new here. can you point me to any slop on bluesky? i'm trying to test something 140
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 · 22/03/2026I was a little incredulous but Pangram agreed with her. Today in retrospect I think a lot more people can tell. But I was amazed at the time. She clearly had a highly attuned internal AI sensor from all of her time talking with "Chat." 140
Max Spero @max.pangram.com · 22/03/2026She complained how she missed 4o but she was getting used 5, even if it was more difficult to talk to. And how she would recognize that voice anywhere. 130
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
Max Spero @max.pangram.com · 28/02/2026Ah that's fair. I think the authors consider the topic of adversarial robustness to be out of scope: there are other papers that measure this better - arxiv.org/abs/2409.14285 - arxiv.org/html/2501.03... (ours)arxiv.orgESPERANTO: Evaluating Synthesized Phrases to Enhance Robustness in AI Detection for Text OriginationWhile large language models (LLMs) exhibit significant utility across various domains, they simultaneously are susceptible to exploitation for unethical purposes, including academic misconduct and dis... 020
Max Spero @max.pangram.com · 28/02/2026Oh nooo unfortunately the AI answer is confidently wrong. We don't use any perplexity or burstiness metrics. It's a specialized ML algorithm trained to detect AI/Human/AI-assisted with a setup that measures the magnitude of AI edits arxiv.org/abs/2510.03154arxiv.orgEditLens: Quantifying the Extent of AI Editing in TextA significant proportion of queries to large language models ask them to edit user-provided text, rather than generate new text from scratch. While previous work focuses on detecting fully AI-generate... 250
Max Spero @max.pangram.com · 28/02/2026I'm glad you cited this study, curious how you think it's flawed? 210
