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Adele Barlow
Adele is Content and Media Lead at GPTZero. With almost two decades of experience leading content for mission-driven startups, she is also the author of multiple books and has written for a range of publications.
How to Use AI Graders: A Teacher’s Guide
A step-by-step guide for teachers to adopt AI graders, design rubrics, audit results, and maintain fairness in grading.
Adele Barlow
· 7 min read
How to check if a student used AI (Teacher’s Guide)
Check if a student used AI with proven methods: analyze drafts, run detectors like GPTZero, and identify writing inconsistencies step by step.
Adele Barlow
· 8 min read
How to Establish AI Policies for Universities
Some universities have started sharing AI policy templates. We’ve seen how much educators value these shared frameworks, so here, we explore why AI policies matter and offer practical steps to building one at your university.
Adele Barlow
· 10 min read
GPTZero vs Copyleaks vs Originality: AI Detector Accuracy Comparison
Being able to tell if a document has been written by AI (or not) has become more essential, while also becoming trickier, as generative AI only becomes more sophisticated. Plus, AI detection is always shifting, as what worked a few months ago might quickly have become outdated. This inevitably leads to asking: what is the most accurate AI detector? After all, what never changes is the importance of accuracy. But with so many options out there, what are the best AI detectors to choose from? In t
Adele Barlow, Emily Napier
· 8 min read
How to Avoid AI Detection As a Student
Learn how to avoid AI detection in a responsible way. Discover 10 strategies to prevent your assignments from getting flagged by AI detectors.
Adele Barlow
· 9 min read
NIH vs. AI: How New Rules Are Redefining Grant Writing
NIH takes a firm stance on how AI can (and can’t) be used, joining a growing list of agencies committed to responsible AI use.
Adele Barlow
· 5 min read
Alternatives to Draftback Chrome Extension: A Review
Need to see a replay of how a piece of writing was created? GPTZero's Writing Report is here to help.
Adele Barlow
· 2 min read
'Hallucitations': The New AI Plagiarism Problem
Check citations for accuracy with GPTZero's Bibliography Checker. AI tools can speed things up – which is part of the appeal, and also the problem. For students feeling overwhelmed with their course loads, AI tools can feel incredibly tempting to use. Why spend hours reading a dense academic text when you could ask ChatGPT to summarize it in seconds? But when we look at the bigger picture, a more complex issue emerges – one that goes beyond plagiarism and into something more foundational. Stu
Adele Barlow
· 5 min read
Is “Bypass Culture” Changing the Way Students Use AI?
New AI tools are changing how students complete assignments and reshaping how they think, prompting the question: What does learning mean now?
Adele Barlow
· 5 min read
Inside GPTZero’s Office Hours with Founder Edward Tian
As the final event in GPTZero’s Teaching Responsibly with AI certificate program, the latest Office Hours session was led by GPTZero founder Edward Tian. We covered the motivations behind GPTZero, the links between media and AI literacy, as well as a couple of demos of GPTZero’s latest features. Tian revealed the origins of GPTZero back to a moment in a classroom at Princeton, where he studied journalism and computer science. One of his formative experiences was taking a course with the legenda
Adele Barlow
· 6 min read
Teaching Responsibly with AI, Webinar #3: Using AI Effectively
Hundreds of educators joined us for the third webinar in our Teaching Responsibly with AI webinar series.
Adele Barlow
· 6 min read
Teaching Responsibly with AI, Office Hours: GPTZero’s New AI Detection Tools
This was the second office hours in our Teaching Responsibly with AI webinar series. We sat down with Robert Nicolaides (Head of Design at GPTZero) and Joe Zakielarz (founding software engineer at GPTZero) for a closer look at the platform’s latest AI detection features, including a brand-new Bibliography Checker. The core message from the session was that educators don’t need to become AI police. Instead, the tools are evolving to give teachers better data points, clearer conversations, and st
Adele Barlow
· 7 min read
In This Professor’s Classroom, AI Is a Teaching Tool
Geri Sawicki shares her insights on making AI a deliberate part of her curriculum.
Adele Barlow
· 5 min read
Teaching Responsibly with AI, Webinar #2: Media and AI Literacy
Over 1,200 educators joined us live for the second event in our new webinar series.
Adele Barlow
· 6 min read
From Catching to Coaching: How One Professor Added GPTZero to the Classroom
In most classrooms today, AI tools are kept behind the scenes. They’re used behind the scenes, often for lesson prep, grammar checks, or plagiarism detection. But Eddie del Val took a different approach: he brought AI right into the learning process.
Adele Barlow
· 7 min read