Equity · Wednesday, September 2, 2026
Max Biro, CEO of Pangram, a company focused on AI detection, warns that the internet is "dangerously close" to the 'dead internet theory' due to the proliferation of AI-generated content. He notes that AI enables the mass production of plausible-sounding text, impacting areas from job applications to online reviews.
“Everyone has heard of the dead internet theory, where we all just stop engaging online because it's so filled with bots and AI slop.”
“Pangram is one company that has gotten a lot of attention lately for its role in trying to build the trust layer of the internet.”
“Well, AI just sort of enables people to produce large volumes of text that seem plausible.”