Source: Financial Times (paywall)
Pangram, an AI-detection tool, has become the basis for publicly flagging published writers as AI-assisted despite unreliable accuracy. A novel has been pulled from shelves and a Commonwealth Prize winner's work placed under suspicion. Publishing gatekeepers have adopted the tool without transparent methodology or appeal mechanisms, allowing poorly-validated AI detection to damage literary reputations before any genuine evidence emerges. The gap is between the publishing industry's demand for content-authenticity assurance and the technology's actual reliability.