Pangram, a Chrome extension for detecting AI-generated text, claims a 99.98% accuracy rate. Marc Watkins used it for one week and watched it flag Gary Marcus as AI.

In this post Marc Watkins examines what happened when he installed Pangram, an AI detection extension that colour-codes posts across X, LinkedIn, Medium, Reddit, and Substack as human, AI-assisted, or AI-generated. Pangram’s own documentation claims a one-in-10,000 false positive rate.

Tagging in fellow StackHunters Chief Absurdist Officer, Rebecca Watson (ReBe), Jennifer Houle, & Kevin Guiney for visibility.