Genetic algorithm trains 6 hours to make AI text pass as human on Pangram detector
tak3sh8 · x · 2026-09-25
A developer used a genetic algorithm to perturb text and evade the Pangram AI-text detector; after just 6 hours of training, a fully AI-generated article was classified as 100% human-written. The author plans to reverse-engineer the process into a reusable skill, invoking the classic GAN insight that "every good discriminator makes a good generator" — using the detector itself as the training signal rather than hand-generating thousands of samples. Another demonstration that statistical AI-text detectors are brittle against targeted optimization, contradicting expert claims that such tools are hard to circumvent.
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