Pangram Labs' AI detection tool flags AI-generated content on social feeds, revealing Pope's viral AI warnings were themselves AI-made

Pangram Labs released an updated Chrome extension that automatically labels AI-generated posts as you scroll social media — the tool recently caught viral statements attributed to the Pope about AI risks, but found they were created by an AI, not the Pope himself.

The extension uses detection algorithms (software that identifies statistical fingerprints of AI text) to spot 'AI slop' — low-effort, mass-produced AI content — and marks it with warning labels before you read it, so you immediately know whether a post came from a human or a machine.

For social media users and professionals, this matters because viral posts that shape public opinion — including warnings about AI itself — can now be verified as human-authored or machine-generated, reducing the spread of misinformation disguised as authority voices like religious leaders or experts.