Pangram AI Detector Flags Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities as 65% AI-Generated
GolinoHudson · x · 2026-09-24
Pangram's AI text detector scored the famous opening of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities as roughly 65% AI-generated. The poster acknowledges the text is short and confidence is low, but the false positive on canonical human writing is striking. Pangram's own docs claim a 1-in-10,000 false positive rate and warn against screening short, formulaic, or outline-style text, noting low scores often indicate hybrid human-AI documents.
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