Pangram’s latest Image 1.0 software is unable to identify synthetic visuals that are programmatically rendered using code created by AI assistants, such as Claude. The company issued the clarification shortly after moving its image detection tool from research preview to a public release.
The new detector, available via API and a Chrome extension, spots 99.2% of synthetic images with a 0.27% false positive rate. Pangram also introduced a video detection tool that achieved 98.57% accuracy on internal benchmarks. CEO Max Spero said the software uses heatmaps to isolate specific edits, helping users distinguish between fully generated media and the standard AI post-processing used by smartphone cameras.
