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A reader calls my attention to this article about Pangram. Curious to hear from readers about their experiences with AI-writing detection programs, whether Pangram, or others.
Pangram’s outputs match my judgment about whether something is AI more reliably than any other tool’s. It is the most widely respected “is this AI?” tool I know of, and my first choice when I want a second opinion (or to evaluate something I haven’t read).
My job is primarily working with AI, so I pay a lot of attention to this area, but I have no special expertise in making or evaluating this specific kind of tool. Others might know more.
I just tried Pangram out as a test. I uploaded two chunks of text that were almost entirely AI-generated using ChatGPT 5.4 (279 words and 506 words) and it rendered a “100% human-written” judgment.
I uploaded another chunk of text that was written with a relatively careless prompt (basically “Write a 500-word essay on the relationship between partisanship and ideology in the United States”). I pasted the result into Pangram and got a “100% AI-generated” judgment. I tried going back to ChatGPT to ask for a revision in a more human register, but the subsequent two checks were also flagged as 100% AI-generated.
One difference might be that the two initial versions were generated based on text I had already written. I loaded text from my papers, asked ChatGPT to rewrite them around a new idea, and pasted the output. So, perhaps the “complete revision” of human text still retains some human signature. It is promising that text generated from scratch gets flagged.
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