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Monday a brand new Reddit This account appeared on the viral forum r/AmItheAsshole, where users’ personal disputes are arbitrated by strangers. This user specifically asked if they had crossed a line by “refusing to babysit my stepmom’s kids because I have my own job and responsibilities.” the He published himself It was concise, direct and grammatically clean, illustrating the situation in which a stepmother and father often expect a person to provide childcare on short notice, eventually leading to an argument.
“Now there’s tension in the house, I’m starting to wonder if I’ve handled it the wrong way,” the editor concluded. “I understand that raising children is stressful, but I also feel like I shouldn’t be obligated to take on this responsibility when it’s not my role.” The responses to this person were largely supportive: Many people responded that the children did not belong to them, and moving out of the house would be the best course of action.
But according to the AI detection software I developed Pangram Laboratories— which claims an accuracy rate of 99.98 percent and a false positive rate of just one in 10,000 — the original story of the family feud was generated by artificial intelligence.
I saw it flagged as AI content while scrolling the page thanks to the latest version of Pangram’s Chrome extension, which went public this week; At the paid tier of $20 per month, the tool scans posts on social sites including Reddit, The analysis also includes a measure of Bangram confidence in the conclusion: low, medium, or high.
Researchers have found that AI is ubiquitous online. It undermines Press and Social platforms both. The text was generated at least in part by artificial intelligence calculations More than a third of all new sites As of 2025, according to a study published this month by researchers at Stanford University, Imperial College London, and the Internet Archive. (The researchers used previous Pangram tools to reach their findings.)
“It’s this mess,” said Max Spiro, Pangram’s self-proclaimed CEO.Ramp janitor“, wants to help clean up. He told WIRED that adding real-time analysis to the company’s browser extension provides people with a more seamless way to check out AI content across the sites they frequent.
“By providing proactive checks, it can be more beneficial for people who are generally concerned about not seeing neglect,” Spiro explains. “It’s a big step to paste some text into an external tool. People won’t do that.”
Of course, made-up scenarios aren’t out of the ordinary on subreddits like r/AmItheAsshole, where trolls have been known to post courtship bait consisting of particularly ridiculous fantasies. However, even the discerning reader may not suspect that a relatively ordinary account such as the one described above may be fake. (The editor who shared the post did not respond to a request for comment on whether they used AI or what they hoped to accomplish with the post, which they later deleted.)
Although no AI detection system is perfect, the Pangram system is considered the most consistent and accurate it has ever been Third party researchers In several universities; 2025 University of Chicago study An audit of AI detection software gave Pangram its highest rating, noting that its false positive rate was close to zero, especially on longer clips. One reason it outperforms competitors, Spiro says, is that it was trained in part on “harder examples that are closer to the boundary between AI and human.” I couldn’t get it to generate a false positive when tested on articles published in WIRED.