The Pangram Backlash Unfolding on College Campuses; The Atlantic, September 21, 2026

 Will Oremus, The Atlantic; The Pangram Backlash Unfolding on College Campuses

"Four years into the ChatGPT era, colleges may be further from solving AI cheating than they were when it launched. Chatbots are becoming capable of completing ever more complex assignments, making their output harder for professors to sniff out. AI-detection software has improved dramatically and is hitting the mainstream, yet academia is deeply conflicted over its use. Last month, an MIT working group issued an influential report on AI in education that recommended against relying on AI detectors, warning that they risk creating an “atmosphere of distrust between instructors and students.”

Caught in the middle are professors, many of whom are skeptical of these tools but at a loss for what else to do."

Billionaire Admits Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Was Written Using AI: ‘I’m Not Embarrassed’; TheWrap, August 25, 2026

 Alex Welch , TheWrap; Billionaire Admits Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Was Written Using AI: ‘I’m Not Embarrassed

"Billionaire hedge fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller has confirmed that his opinion essay published Monday by The Wall Street Journal was written using artificial intelligence.

The essay in question, “Let the Bond Market Speak,” questions U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s interventionist methods to manage U.S. treasury yields. After it was published, AI detection tool Pangram concluded that the op-ed had been penned using AI. When asked about those reports Tuesday by NOTUS, Druckenmiller said, “Of course I used AI.”...

Druckenmiller’s comments come at a time when the use of AI remains a hot topic of ethical and journalistic debate online."

Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button; The Verge, August 21, 2026

 Jay Peters , The Verge; Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button

"LinkedIn actually announced a “Seems like AI slop” button on July 30th, and the company says that a lot of people have already used it. According to a Thursday post from chief product officer Hari Srinivasan, “over a million people” have clicked on the button, which is accessible from the three dots menu on a post.

LinkedIn announced the button a few weeks after AI detector Pangram determined that 41 percent of LinkedIn’s longform posts were flagged as fully AI generated, which 404 Media reported on. Alongside the AI slop button, LinkedIn introduced “new and improved” classifiers to identify posts as AI and removed a feature that would “enhance your post” with AI.

“AI slop is a top priority for all of us,” Srinivasan said at the time, and it sounds as if the platform’s changes may be making a difference. In Thursday’s post, Srinivasan said that users are overall “now experiencing 40% less views on what we classify as AI slop from just a few weeks ago.”"