Max Spero

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224 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 16 Jul

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

you ask ChatGPT to write a literary prize winning essay and like this is what it would say, which is, you know, kind of vapid and has a bunch of empty metaphors and is like fake pretend deep.

At least that's like my read on it.

I really don't want to be like,

too critical of the guy, but I think there were also, like, a lot of inconsistencies in the interview, which also make me suspicious.

For example, like, he was asked what his favorite author was.

He mentioned a couple authors, and then the interviewer asked, hey, okay, what's your favorite piece from this author?

And then he's like, I can't actually remember, like, a piece from this author, which is, like, very... I think that lights up some, like...

some alarms for me of, like, is this person really just, like, bullshitting or did he actually spend a lot of time on it?

Also, I think, like, the speech-to-text is kind of surprising to me.

Like, I...

I don't see how that would trigger pangram unless you took speech-to-text, rambled for five minutes or whatever, and then asked AI to turn that into a coherent essay.

I think it's really only been in the last six months where I think the tides have really turned against AI writing.

I think for a while people were holding out and saying, well, you know, maybe like AI writing is going to become more common and is going to be like generally accepted.

And now we're realizing like, oh, there's actually a lot of use cases beyond our initial ones.

So who's using Pangram?

I think like there's a very big cohort of educators and schools and universities who use Pangram to communicate

check if a student is cheating on an assignment, if they're using AI to fully generate their essays, et cetera.

I think we also have users in publishing.

Either they have like a magazine or they're an agent or something like that.

And they want to use Pangram to just make sure that everything they are going to publish is above board.

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