Pangram AI detector under fire: removing line breaks triggers false positives on human writing
JFPuget · x · 2026-09-23
A discussion thread highlights false positives from AI-text detector Pangram: a piece flagged as AI-generated was 100% human written. The argument: if Pangram is so sensitive that merely removing some newlines produces false positives, the burden of proof lies with Pangram — not with the humans whose work gets flagged as fully or partially AI.
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