Pangram launches Image 1.0 and Image Flash 1.0 to detect AI-generated images and video
Pangram says Image 1.0 catches 99.2% of AI images while wrongly flagging 0.27% of real ones and Flash 1.0 scores 98.7% on the DF26 video benchmark; the results are company-reported.
Why it matters
Detection has lagged generation: the authors of DF26, an academic benchmark of 2,691 clips of people speaking to camera published in September, found that both people and leading detectors did little better than chance. Pangram, known for spotting AI-written text, says Flash 1.0 is 29 points ahead of the next detector on DF26, and Image 1.0 can draw a heatmap of where AI content sits in a picture. Its 99.96% result on copies of 100 real photos comes from a test Pangram designed itself. Watch for independent evaluations.
Key facts
- Image 1.0 catches 99.2% of AI images
- Wrongly flags 0.27% of real images
- Flash 1.0 scores 98.7% on DF26
- DF26 has 2,691 clips
- In Pangram's web app and API; Image 1.0 also in its Chrome extension