100 classic texts tested: Pangram flags Victor Hugo poem as 100% AI after one line removed

GolinoHudson · x · 2026-10-08

An academic reports that Dartmouth's College of Arts and Sciences now recommends AI detector Pangram, yet his experiments reveal fragility: a pasted copy of Victor Hugo's "Demain, dès l'aube" was flagged 100% AI while the original scored 100% human—differing only in straight apostrophes, collapsed line breaks, and a missing last line. He then ran 100 public-domain classics in 7 languages (Shakespeare, Keats, Dickinson, Hugo, Baudelaire, Goethe, Dante, KJV...), 5 versions each, through Pangram's API to systematically test how punctuation and formatting shifts affect verdicts.

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