{
  "id": 16729102,
  "title": "I built GPTZero in college, and it became a hit. We sold it to an AI company —Now I worry AI is ruining writing.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/i-built-gptzero-in-college-and-it-became-a-hit-we-sold-it-to-an-ai",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-27T09:00:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Business Insider",
    "slug": "business-insider",
    "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/gptzero-cofounder-ai-writing-detection-concerns-2026-10"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Edward Tian, the co-founder of GPTZero, was not initially planning to become a tech entrepreneur. While in college, Tian and his friend Alex developed an AI detection tool after the launch of ChatGPT. Their tool gained rapid popularity, leading to a successful sale to Superhuman three years later. Tian now reflects on how the company's decision to create artificial scarcity helped boost its success. Despite initially being pro-AI, Tian now feels that AI is negatively impacting writing and regrets not pursuing a journalism degree.",
  "summary": "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.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}