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Education

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
Video screenshot of GPTZero founder Edward Tian during an educator office hours session
Webinar

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
Making America Hallucinate Again? GPTZero Detects New Errors in Major Government Report
Case Study

Making America Hallucinate Again? GPTZero Detects New Errors in Major Government Report

On May 22, the U.S. Presidential Commission to Make America Healthy Again (MAHA), led by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., released a major report on the causes of chronic diseases in children. Yet within a week, news outlets including NOTUS, the New York Times and Washington Post reported that some of the publication’s hundreds of footnotes appeared garbled or fabricated, suggesting they’d been generated by AI. Using GPTZero’s Bibliography Scan tool, we identified nine fabricated sources

Paul Esau · 11 min read
Webinar title slide: 'Teaching Responsibly with AI: Using AI Effectively' presented by Manal Saleh, Faculty at Nova Scotia Community College
Webinar

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
Inside Our New ‘Compare with AI Text’ Tool
GPTZero

Inside Our New ‘Compare with AI Text’ Tool

We’re bringing more transparency to AI detection, with plain-language explanations that show how your text overlaps with AI writing.

Jacob Goldfarb · 4 min read
Screenshot from GPTZero educator office hours session on new AI detection tools
Webinar

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
Modesto Junior College Planetarium and Sciences building on the West Campus under blue sky
Case Study

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
Does AI Accelerate Thinking Skills or Atrophy Them?
AI Research

Does AI Accelerate Thinking Skills or Atrophy Them?

A growing body of literature shows that if we don't use our critical thinking skills, we lose them.

Alex Cui · 2 min read
Introducing Natural Language Explanations in Advanced Scan
GPTZero

Introducing Natural Language Explanations in Advanced Scan

Today, we take a major step forward in helping reviewers better identify and understand signs of AI or human writing. Our latest update to the Advanced Scan feature shows what AI-generated text looks like as well as the reasoning behind each detection.

Edwin Thomas · 5 min read
Behind the Scenes: Introducing “AI Polished”
GPTZero

Behind the Scenes: Introducing “AI Polished”

With our latest model update, GPTZero introduces higher granularity in our AI detector by adding a new classification called “AI Polished”. This tag identifies text originally written by a human and later improved by AI.

Emily Napier · 8 min read
Teaching Responsibly with AI, Webinar #2: Media and AI Literacy
Webinar

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
GPTZero AI detection supports German and Portuguese
GPTZero

GPTZero AI detection supports German and Portuguese

We’ve released a major update to our multilingual model that outperforms competitors across the board. By training on more challenging human and AI data, we've achieved a less than 1% false positive rate on all supported languages (Model 3.2m).

Emily Napier · 2 min read
Watercolor illustration of students collaborating around a table in a creative classroom setting
Case Study

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
Watercolour of two businessmen doing an interview

Should I Opt Out of AI Resume Screening?

A growing number of companies are giving candidates the ability to opt out of AI screening. So, should you?

Adele Barlow · 5 min read
Watercolor illustration of a student studying at a desk with floating papers and an open laptop
Education

Teaching Responsibly with AI, Webinar #1: AI and Ethics

Over 3,000 educators signed up, and 1,070 showed up live. This was the first event in our Teaching Responsibly with AI webinar series.

Adele Barlow · 6 min read