Pangram AI detector flags a Victor Hugo poem as 100% AI-generated
GolinoHudson · x · 2026-09-24
- A researcher finishing a paper with colleagues says Pangram scored their 73-page paper 63% AI-generated even though LLM was only used for the abstract and 5-10 sentences for readability — which they call total BS.
- As a control, a poem by Victor Hugo was flagged as 100% AI-generated by Pangram. The author asks what happens if journals and institutions start acting on such detector scores.
- Pangram's own page claims a false positive rate of roughly 1 in 10,000 and admits limited confidence on short or formulaic text — but a Hugo poem scoring a full 100% is a striking counterexample to that claim.
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