Pangram expands its AI detection tools to cover video and images

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A company known for spotting AI written text is moving into pictures and video. Engadget reports that Pangram now checks whether videos and images were made with AI

The video tool separates partially AI clips from fully AI generated ones and shows a heatmap of where the changes appear. Pangram claims over 98 percent accuracy in one internal test

Pangram Image 1.0 is available now as a Chrome extension. In company tests it caught over 99 percent of AI images, with a false positive rate of 0.27 percent, and free accounts get a few checks while heavier use needs a subscription

Chief executive Max Spero said modern phone cameras were a problem, because their built in AI processing can confuse detectors. The launch was delayed after the model flagged photos from the iPhone 18 Pro as AI generated

There are limits. The extension returned unsure on some obvious fakes in a demo, and confidence drops for images smaller than 512 by 512 pixels. Even so, tools like this are becoming essential as AI images spread across social media, and showing where an image was changed is more useful than a simple yes or no

Would you use an AI image detector while browsing? And can detection ever keep up with how fast image generators improve?

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