AI-generated content is everywhere now: From restaurant menus and student essays to full-length movies and social media posts, AI is churning out huge amounts of text, images, audio, and video. In some digital spaces, it's overwhelming human-made content.

But what about your inbox? Just how many of your friends, family members, clients, and colleagues are using AI to compose their emails? Is that store newsletter you just signed up for written by a real person or a bot? It's not always easy to tell.

The Pangram AI text and image detector tool has now extended its reach into your Gmail inbox. The company makes a browser extension that sits in Gmail and runs incoming messages through its algorithms to try to detect AI writing.

You will need at least the $20-per-month individual plan on Pangram to use the Gmail integration—it's not available on the free tier. I tested it to see how accurate it appears to be based on my recent Gmail conversations.

You can let Pangram loose in your Gmail inbox by heading to the Gmail integration page and clicking Connect your Gmail. You can also click the Gmail Integration entry on the left-hand navigation pane in your main Pangram dashboard on the web. You'll need to go through the standard authorization screens to confirm you want to make the connection.

Pangram says the contents of your emails aren't stored after being assessed and won't be used to train models designed to look for AI text. There's still a level of trust here, but you can quickly remove the Pangram plug-in from your Gmail at any point.

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