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August 25, 2026 at 5:00 a.m. EDTToday at 5:00 a.m. EDT
Hours after the pope released a 47-page document warning of the dangers of artificial intelligence, accusations began to fly on social media. The encyclical published late in May was partially AI-generated, according to a popular app called Pangram marketed as an “AI detector.” Did the pope use AI to write about AI?
In a world filling up with AI-generated slop, AI detectors offer a tantalizing solution. Some teachers use them to flag suspicious writing from students, and they create potent fuel for online accusations or shaming. But although researchers have found Pangram to be accurate in many contexts, AI detectors of all kinds remain fallible.
The Washington Post fed the AI-generated text below into Pangram. Can you flip the detector to say it’s human-written? Click the phrases to swap each one for text written by a person.
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The hot dog is not something we’ll ever agree onoccupies a philosophical gray zone. By strict definition, filling between bread, — filling between bread — it qualifies as a sandwich. But the hinged bun creates a different texture and feelstructural and cultural distinction that is intuitively different.feels meaningfully different. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter: call it what you want, just put mustard on it.
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