I built GPTZero in college, and it became a hit. We sold it to an AI company —Now I worry AI is ruining writing.
Source: Business Insider ·
Edward Tian built GPTZero in college and sold the AI writing detection tool to Superhuman. Now he worries AI is changing how people write and think.
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GPTZero cofounder Edward Tian's last day at the GPTZero office before the team moved to the Superhuman offices.Courtesy of Edward TianEdward Tian co-founded GPTZero in college, building it into a success before selling to Superhuman.He said he thinks that creating 'artificial scarcity' for the product contributed to its success.He said he'd major in the humanities, not computer science, if he went to college today.This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Edward Tian, the 26-year-old cofounder of GPTZero, who's based in New York. His words have been edited for length and clarity.I was never planning to go down the founder path straight out of college. I had a visual investigations fellowship lined up for after graduation and was ready to start a journalism career.My cofounder Alex and I went to high school together. When ChatGPT came out, he was pursuing his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Toronto, and I was in my senior year at Princeton. Over winter…