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Edward Tian
Edward is the CEO of GPTZero. He previously worked on synthetic data research at Microsoft AI, and as an investigative journalist at the BBC.
Presidents Say the Same Things: Analysis of 81st United Nations General Assembly Speeches
Our first analysis looked at how much of what was said at this year's General Assembly came from speeches GPTZero flagged as AI-generated. This post is an addendum to that one. Here, we look at a few examples of world leaders saying the same things, sometimes in nearly the same words, and at whether those were the speeches GPTZero flagged. We covered every General Assembly meeting with a UN transcript from September 8 to 26, which comes to 16 meetings, including the first five days of the Gene
Avikam Mangla, Edward Tian
· 13 min readGPTZero Investigation: One in Five Words at the UN General Assembly are AI-Generated
From September 8 to September 28, world leaders descended upon New York City for the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly. This marked a major milestone in history as world leaders convened to discuss partnerships and debate major geopolitical challenges, including ongoing conflicts in Iran and Ukraine, and the role of humanity in the development of artificial intelligence. This year, the use of AI by world leaders and the debate over the use of AI have grown increasingly intertw
Edward Tian, Avikam Mangla, Alex Cui
· 6 min read
GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers
GPTZero's analysis 4841 papers accepted by NeurIPS 2025 show there are at least 100 with confirmed hallucinations
Nazar Shmatko, Alex Adam, Paul Esau, Alex Cui, Edward Tian
· 26 min read
GPTZero is Officially The Most Accurate Commercial AI Detector
GPTZero confirms its title as the most accurate commercial AI detector, outperforming competitors on the massive independent RAID benchmark.
Alex Adam, Alex Cui, Edward Tian
· 3 min read
How Testing Our Own Writing Patterns Is Helping Us Preserve What’s Human
Earlier this month, Alex Adam, our Head of ML, asked the entire team to analyze their own native writing patterns on Google Docs. This was in collaboration with Edwin Thomas and our ML team, who is training a typing pattern algorithm for human patterns, and our Chrome Extension team, who are working on a live writing coach. It was part of our team retreat in Nova Scotia, Canada, where we had a lot of fun brainstorming and workshopping the future of GPTZero in person, all centered around our mis
Edward Tian
· 3 min read
How GPTZero Can Create a Culture of Trust in the Classroom
We’re building tools that aim to do something different: not to ‘catch students out’ using AI tools, but to create communication between teachers and students, rather than further divide them.
Edward Tian
· 4 min read
We're the #1 rated product on G2 this year!
We’re beyond proud to share that out of hundreds of AI tools, GPTZero has been named as the #1 Best AI Software Product of 2025.
Edward Tian, Alex Cui
· 1 min read
How Can the GPTZero Fact Checker Support Journalism?
Journalism has always been about uncovering the truth - but today, that truth is harder to pin down. AI-generated misinformation spreads faster than it can be verified. This is why GPTZero is building tools to fact-check at scale.
Edward Tian
· 5 min readAI Marketing Statistics: How Marketers Use AI in 2025
Read the latest on how marketers use AI in 2025
Edward Tian
· 8 min read
How AI Detection Benchmarking Works at GPTZero (2025)
An overview of how AI detectors like GPTZero, TurnitIn, and Copyleaks compare in terms of accuracy rate, error rate, false positives and negatives for identifying AI-generated content.
Edward Tian, Alex Cui, Alex Adam
· 6 min read
Why the world needs more human writers
GPTZero co-founder Edward Tian shares why he works to preserve what's human, bringing transparency to a world filled with AI content.
Edward Tian
· 6 min read
Google’s New AI Detection Watermarking – Will It Work?
GPTZero’s top AI detection team weighs in on Google’s SynthID watermarking announcement — what it is, what it's not, and its implications.
Edward Tian, Alex Cui, Alex Adam
· 2 min read
How Can Teachers Reduce Implicit Bias in AI Detection Among Students?
An overview of how teachers can reduce implicit bias when reviewing student written work for potential AI usage.
Edward Tian, Vivienne Chen
· 5 min read
GPTZero Partners with University of Virginia School of Education
Since Day 1, GPTZero has been a collaborative effort between our product and the educators who use it. In many ways, educators are the product managers of our tools, guiding their development and giving feedback on their usability in real-world settings. While we know our product inside and out, it’s the educators who have subject matter expertise in the classroom. During our time as a company, certain key educators have partnered with us on foundational pieces of the product development proc
Edward Tian
· 3 min read
Second-Hand Hallucinations: Investigating Perplexity's AI-Generated Sources
Perplexity AI, a generative AI startup building a more accurate artificial intelligence with links to sources, has cemented itself as a serious industry player with a $1 billion valuation and the backing of Jeff Bezos. Perplexity is one of several startups deploying a technique called retrieval augmented generation to resolve AI hallucinations through real-time references to sources on the Internet. In recent months, however, GPTZero has noticed an increased number of sources linked by Perplexi
Edward Tian
· 6 min read