Pangram detects Claude Opus 5.5 with 99.7% accuracy; "in short" is the new em dash

SuB8u · x · 2026-09-26

AI-detection company Pangram ran 1,000 Chatbot Arena prompts through Claude Opus 5.5: Pangram 4 hit 99.7% accuracy, classifying 997 outputs as fully AI, 2 as mixed, and just 1 as human — that lone miss being a Club Penguin parody poem in the style of Ozymandias.

False negatives clustered in literary text (a Jane Austen chapter explanation, a Thucydides-style speech). The piece also notes Opus 5.5's new writing fingerprint — heavy use of "in short," this generation's em dash — and judges it the best-writing Claude yet.

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