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A problem I didn’t even conceive of a year ago was whether or not a book was written by a human.

This author has done nothing to deserve that scrutiny, but I can’t escape the feeling now of having to be guarded when I see a new book online with a relatively short history (spring 2026 is the earliest version of this text), as I can’t be sure it’s either “AI-enhanced” or AI-written.

I don’t like this feeling and it dampers any enthusiasm I once had for being excited about stuff like this.

That aside, if the author did write this themselves without AI, kudos to them and their acheivement!

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You know this is easily verifiable right…. I just put 10 random pages into Pangram and they all came back 100% human. And now I feel bad for making an even greater proportion of comments on this thread not about graph theory.
How reliable are these test though?
Pangram is very good if you can provide enough text, in my experience.

I wouldn't use it as a 100% infallible AI detector when the stakes are high (accusing someone of cheating) but it's very good at detecting AI generated text when you can drop large sections of text into it.

My anecdotal experience has been that is is very reliable on inputs over 500 words. There are a number of third party evaluations that corroborate. Pangram is pretty easy to test for yourself if you are a skeptic.
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