AI detection, now for Gmail

When we bought @helpareporter and decided to revive it, our number one objective was to restore the quality and trust of the brand. That's when we found @pangram + @max_spero_. Full @Featureddotcom x Pangram study on AI detection, from ~1.4M pitches: pangram.com/blog/featured-ca…

🟡 @pangram founder and CEO @max_spero_ joins Mixed Signals to explain how his AI detection tool actually works, and why he thinks the escalating cat-and-mouse game between detectors and "humanizers" is a fight worth having. @maxwelltani and @semaforben ask Spero how Pangram can already distinguish Claude from ChatGPT, why he built a humanizer internally and refuses to release it, and what it would actually take for a fine-tuned personal AI to fool his model.

I'm almost certain your email inbox is flooded with AI slop. And you know it too. Some of it is helpful, a lot of it isn't. I've been using @pangram in Gmail for a few weeks now and it's been life changing. You still see the subject and the sender, but there's also a small Red or Green badge: Human or AI. Shocking how simple things can be so helpful.

RT @ch3njus: oh holy shit @pangram chrome extension is like turning on a flash light and seeing immediately which posts are human, mixed, o…

I've been using Pangram's Gmail inbox labeler for about two months now. It's been pretty huge to be able to see cold emails labeled as AI and use this info to inform how I want to engage. With this feature, there was a big discussion internally about privacy. Zero data retention (ZDR) -- where Pangram doesn't store the result after processing -- is a policy typically reserved for enterprise customers. However, since email data is much more sensitive, we ended up deciding to turn on ZDR for all email inbox scans. No email inbox data will be retained by Pangram, and this applies equally to everybody. The other really important thing here was to give users a choice of what happens to their email. My preference today is to simply label AI emails but leave them in my inbox. This may shift In the future if AI emails ramp up in volume, so we have the option to make fully AI emails skip the inbox or go straight to spam. Please try it out and let me know any feedback you may have!

Pangram for gmail is here, check it out

incredibly proud of this team and it's a lovely article, but most importantly look at this freaking picture of @kthai1618 !!! (and me in the background doing something terribly important i'm sure)

We are hiring! Dm is open for Pm and Designer role.

The colluding agent swarm from last week presents unfavorable conditions for Pangram. On average, text items were short, and they often contained long strings of non-agent generated characters, like URLs. Despite this we do quite well. Pangram 4 achieves 42% recall across the set, and 69% for pages over 50 words. An internal model id probe indicates the agents were likely from the ChatGPT family (thank you @elyasbuilds for setting that up for me).

Three important points on the AI writing conversation between @DKThomp and @max_spero_ of @pangram: 1. LinkedIN has more AI written content than X/Twitter. 2. AI has made writing “cheap.” 3. The algorithms of social platforms currently prioritize quantity over quality, but this may soon change (for the better).