Over the past month, 10 out of 310 guest submissions to the three publications were labeled as at least 80% “AI” by AI detector Pangram, suggesting AI is not yet making a meaningful dent in human contributions to the most prestigious publications. Another 40 articles were partially AI-generated. Pangram uses custom AI models to analyze text and other content for AI and, according to a spokesperson, has a .01% false positive rate. If Pangram finds more than 80% of the text is AI generated, it is labeled as AI. In informal testing by Semafor, Pangram was very accurate in detecting AI-written text, though some complain of false positives.
Semafor’s analysis follows a debate sparked Tuesday, when billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller — and later The Wall Street Journal’s opinion page editor, Paul Gigot — stood behind Druckenmiller’s use of AI to write an opinion piece critiquing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s interventions in the bond markets. The piece had the wooden hallmarks of AI text (“This wasn’t liquidity management, it was price management,“) but served its purpose as a blunt rebuke from a titan of finance to his protégé, and circulated widely in Washington and on Wall Street before — and after — its AI roots were confirmed. Pangram gave it a 100% AI score.
https://www.semafor.com/article/08/26/2026/ai-writing-has-already-begun-to-appear-on-oped-pages