Scholars Debate Pangram AI Detector's False Alarms in Academia

Scholars including Barbara Biasi and Paul Novosad are debating the reliability of AI detector Pangram: while users rage at 'AI-generated' verdicts, Novosad says measured false positive rates are below 1% and challenges critics to produce pre-2022 texts misclassified by the tool.

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