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I Let Pangram Loose on My Gmail Inbox. Here's How Much AI It Found

WIRED

The AI detector will now check your incoming emails for machine-generated text. AI-generated content is everywhere now: From restaurant menus and student essays to full-length movies and social media posts, AI is churning out huge amounts of text, images, audio, and video. Just how many of your friends, family members, clients, and colleagues are using AI to compose their emails? Is that store newsletter you just signed up for written by a real person or a bot? It's not always easy to tell.


Pangram review: A polished AI detector that gets the basics right

PCWorld

The Dell Laptop Buying Guide UK: Which Dell Laptop Should You Buy? When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Pangram is impressively accurate with purely human-and AI-written text, while offering a clean interface and useful extras. It remains one of the strongest AI detectors I've tested. Pangram is one of the strongest AI detectors I've tested, combining excellent accuracy on fully human-and AI-written text, with a polished interface and useful features. It becomes slightly less reliable once heavy human editing or mixed authorship enters the picture, but that's a common weakness among AI detectors anyways.


Zimbabwean author Simbarashe Kundizeza denies using AI to write prize-winning story

The Guardian

Simbarashe Kundizeza says the story is entirely his own work. Simbarashe Kundizeza says the story is entirely his own work. The Zimbabwean writer Simbarashe Kundizeza has denied using AI to write a prize-winning short story after an article in the Atlantic said software had flagged it as almost completely AI-generated. Kundizeza's story The Blue Fighter was announced as the winner of the prestigious Caine prize for African writers on 6 October. Five days later, The Atlantic published an article by the author and journalist Vauhini Vara titled: "Yet Another Literary prize winner Seems to Be AI." Vara said that she had run the story through the AI-detection software Pangram, which itself uses AI, and it had deemed the story to be almost completely artificially generated.


Your Next Great Read Might Be Certified 'Organic'

WIRED

Your Next Great Read Might Be Certified'Organic' Amid a sea of AI writing slop, a new stamp for "organic literature" will help readers to pick out books authored by real, corn-fed, free-range humans. As scandals involving the use of artificial intelligence by professional authors pile up, a British startup has established a way for publishers to certify their books as "organic"--written by real people, no machines in sight. On Wednesday, Books by People confirmed it had received approval from the UK's Intellectual Property Office to begin distributing a mark that indicates a published book has been authored by a human. The stamp, which looks like a thumbprint, will be displayed on the cover. "If people are going to be writing AI books or seeking it out for their own enjoyment, that's their prerogative," Esme Dennys, cofounder of Books by People, tells WIRED.


The Pangram Backlash Unfolding on College Campuses

The Atlantic - Technology

Professors are tearing their hair out over AI detectors. Timothy Paustian has tried everything to stop his students from writing essays with AI. When ChatGPT first came out, Paustian, a biology professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, tested AI detectors that promised to flag machine-generated prose. They were "comically bad," he told me. Then he started sneaking invisible prompts into his assignments that only chatbots would respond to.


The Rise of Parasite Authors

The Atlantic - Technology

First, AI stole their books. Earlier this summer, Tamra Westberry received a Facebook notification that made her heart sink. A fellow author had taken to social media to endorse Westberry's latest book, Project Erebus, after reading about it in a weekly roundup of the latest paranormal-romance releases. Independent authors like Westberry, who is based in Texas and has published dozens of books under the pen name Tara West, usually welcome an encouraging word and a bit of cross-promotion. She had never heard of a book called Project Erebus .


Pangram Has Emerged as the Gold Standard of AI Detection. Should You Trust It?

WIRED

He's wearing a beige T-shirt and has short dark hair, a boyish expression, and a wide smile. He says he's rushing home with lunch and will call back.


I Wrote This Article. It Is "100% Human Written." I'm Still Paranoid You'll Think Otherwise.

Slate

Users A.I. Detectors Are Supposed to Make Our Writing Better. It Might Be Doing the Opposite. If you've been avoiding the em dash and words like and, you're not alone. Enter your email to receive alerts for this author. You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time.


Is This What Comes After AI Slop?

The Atlantic - Technology

Is This What Comes After AI Slop? Set in a surveillance state ruled by a masked elite, the novel traces the unlikely romance between the president's son and an assassin hired to kill him. Since H. M. Wolfe uploaded to Amazon as a Kindle ebook, it has been a viral hit. "Did I finish, or did finish me?" a TikTok book influencer gushed . In February, Simon & Schuster paid seven figures to secure the publishing rights to the book and its sequel, which is due out next year.


Substack is adding an AI detection feature

Engadget

The company has partnered with Pangram for the new tools. Substack has launched a new AI detection tool in partnership with Pangram. This will allow readers to scan Substack content for an assessment of how much of the material was written by AI. The tool can be used on text longer than 100 words that was published beginning today. Substack is also adding a new statement space for creators to explicitly share if and how they used AI for their content.