We’re ‘dangerously close’ to dead internet theory, says Pangram’s CEO

The internet faces a trust problem as AI-generated text and images increasingly appear in job applications, product reviews, and insurance claims, making it difficult for platforms and users to distinguish what is real. A startup focused on AI detection has raised funding and partnered with a newsletter platform to help readers identify which authors use AI to write their content, while also releasing an AI image detection tool. The startup's CEO warns that the internet could be "dangerously close" to dead internet theory becoming reality within a few years, and suggests that determining how much AI was used in creating something may be more useful than simply labeling content as AI or human-generated.