Pangram’s CEO wants to expose everyone’s AI slop habit

Installing Pangram in your web browser feels a bit like having X-ray vision. Suddenly you can see how much artificial intelligence slop is quietly coursing through the modern internet. Pangram knows which of your LinkedIn connections have been posting with Claude or ChatGPT, and how many viral Reddit posts are betraying the site’s claims of being authentically human. Maybe you had suspicions—too many em dashes here, overused constructions like it’s not x, it’s y there—but Pangram delivers the closest thing to actual proof, marking every post as “AI,” “Human,” or something in between. While AI writing detectors have been around for as long as ChatGPT itself, Pangram’s technology routinely beats other AI detectors in independent testing, lending credibility to its role in various recent writing scandals. An award-winning short story, a popular novel, a billionaire’s Wall Street Journal column, and even Pope Leo XIV’s posts on X are among Pangram’s recent marks of shame. The Brooklyn-based startup, whose full name is Pangram Labs, raised $9 million in July in a fundraising round led by Menlo Ventures and is expanding into AI image and video detection as well. It has a couple dozen em…