Max Spero

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The Vergecast · The one AI detector people actually trust · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

For most pieces of text, it's actually very obvious to the detector if it's

if it's human or not.

Is it riddled with typos?

Is it, like, messy or personal?

And so by looking for these edge cases where, like, it maybe plausibly could have been written by AI, we get, like, much higher signal on what are the actual AI signals.

Yeah, I think usually it's like a more holistic story than... The clean story is like, oh, this sentence tips us off that it's AI.

But the actual answer is that the model's really looking holistically at the document.

And there's a whole bunch of micro decisions that, like...

Each micro decision alone is a decision that AI would have made and a human wouldn't have necessarily always make that decision.

But when you aggregate all of these micro decisions together, you can have high confidence that the document was AI generated.

So yes, the things in our dashboard, we have some supporting evidence.

We've mostly taken these from the Wikipedia signs of AI writing.

And we just kind of show these to people as a way to personally train yourself on how to detect AI writing.

Yeah, in a sense, yes.

I think the English-readable side is the hardest thing.

We've been doing some really interesting work.

This field of research is called interpretability.

So in our case, we are looking at...

what neurons in the pangram neural network are activating when it sees AI and how does it cluster AI text differently from human text.

So we had a pretty cool blog post that we put out recently where we found that even though we're not training the model specifically by saying this AI text is from Claude and this AI text is from ChatGPT, our model still learns what model family the text is from and is able to

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