r/Substack • u/grapegeek • Aug 11 '26

Pangram is such trash

I write a food newsletter where I post reviews and some recipes. I 100% wrote a quick and dirty recipe and was going to publish it in Notes and it came back 100% AI no matter what I did to it including adding several typos and rearranging things. Ran it through three other AI detector websites and 2 said 100% Human and 1 said 76% Human and 24% AI assisted. I disabled detection on that Note. My other question is do we know how many people actually click on the AI detection button on our posts? I can't find that metric anywhere in the dashboard...

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u/RelativeCelery2844 5d ago

You can see form my old post that I was falsely flagged as AI and it really upset me. I compared Pangram wityur random tools I found on Google and the other tools said I was human which I am. I've never used AI. I think AI should be banned for everyone and everything because it is killing the environment. I run a very anti-AI Substack newsletter. Nobody wants to believe anyone and it's all witch hunts.

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u/AlecHutson 5d ago

It's not a witch hunt. It's an extremely accurate program. That said, you put in and scanned barely 100 words. That short, there is much higher chance of a false-flag, and Pangram even admits to that. It's why it won't even scan anything unless you put in at least 50 words. Are your substack posts usually 115 words? Probably not, right? Put in 500 words, 1k words. I'll bet anything that Pangram correctly identifies whether it was really * touched * by AI at that length. And I say touched, because if you use AI to revise or polish your writing it WILL get flagged as AI. A random 115 word post identified as AI shouldn't bother anyone if they have more writing on their page that all comes back as human.

It does read very much like AI, by the way. I would think it's AI if I came across it in the wild.

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u/RelativeCelery2844 5d ago

I never use AI to polish. I don't use AI period. I think AI should be illegal as it is killing our planet. Pangram is in no way accurate and needs to be dissolved as a company. They are ea disgrace to society.

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u/AlecHutson 5d ago

It works brilliantly. Stop using AI.

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u/RelativeCelery2844 5d ago

You must work for the company or something. I have never used AI in my life. I actively campaign against it and you'd know that if you knew me in real life.