GPTZero
App & software · 2023
GPTZero reported $30 million ARR when Superhuman agreed to buy it.
Edward Tian
@edward_the6 · Jan 3, 2023
I spent New Years building GPTZero — an app that can quickly and efficiently detect whether an essay is ChatGPT or human written
Riley Goodside
@goodside · Jan 4, 2023
GPTZero is a proposed anti-plagiarism tool that claims to be able to detect ChatGPT-generated text. Here's how it did on the first prompt I tried.
Edward Tian@edward_the6
I spent New Years building GPTZero — an app that can quickly and efficiently detect whether an essay is ChatGPT or human written
Spread Score
How it worksNumbers
- November monthly active users, founder claim
- 9M
- As of Nov 30, 2024 · Self-reported · Edward Tian / LinkedIn
- Milestone date
- Week of Jan 4, 2023
- Jan 3 ’23 to Week of Jan 4, 2023
- Platforms
- 5
- Started on Open web
- Origin
- Seeded
- Education
How it spread
Trace the originEdward Tian released GPTZero over winter break and shared it on Twitter. Traffic crashed the app as teachers and journalists tested it. Debate over detection errors followed; teacher partnerships, subscriptions and an acquisition agreement came later.
Documented milestone; not a measured attention peak. Some dates are known only to the week, month or year.
Timeline (16)
January 2023
TikTok users platform jump · Jan 2023
TikTok users called Tian a snitch after GPTZero launched.[4]
Riley Goodside (@goodside) backlash · Jan 4 ’23
Goodside posted a test that bypassed GPTZero, then described an attack using zero-width spaces.[5]
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Do this
- 1Show a tool working on an example people can recognize and repeat.
Every number (14)
- Seed post only; live counter, rounded; derivatives separate“7.8M Views”7.8M[1]
Press (5 outlets)
- Jan 4, 20231 day in
Business Insider · A Princeton student built an app which can detect if ChatGPT wrote an essay to combat AI-based plagiarism
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