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Edward Tian

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prev. @BBC Investigations. words @bellingcat . code @azure @princeton_nlp building #gptzero 🚀

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I spent New Years building GPTZero — an app that can quickly and efficiently detect whether an essay is ChatGPT or human written
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Went from an idea to an app that 7 million people used! finally done. @Princeton #thesis
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We just launched GPTZeroX, a new AI detection model built for educators after a month of iteration. Demo👇
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@nandoodles @sreejan_kumar @princeton_nlp feel free to try the beta yourself at or it's still barebones right now, but will be spending the next few weeks improving the model and analysis.
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@nandoodles the motivation here is increasing AI plagiarism. think are high school teachers going to want students using ChatGPT to write their history essays? likely not.
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here's a quick demo with john mcphee's "frame of reference"
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@BillAckman @MIT hey @BillAckman , we are an AI startup in the academic integrity space, would be interested in chatting
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@SydneyFreedberg thanks Sydney! currently the app uses a few properties, perplexity (randomness of a text to a model, or how well a language model likes a text); and burstiness (machine written text exhibits more uniform and constant perplexity over time, while human written text varies
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here's a demo with @nandoodles 's Linkedin post that used ChatGPT to successfully respond to Danish programmer David Hansson's opinions
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@nandoodles the analysis is based on some ongoing research with and @sreejan_kumar and @princeton_nlp . hopefully we'll publish something empirical soon. but in the mean time this was a fun app to make :)
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@nandoodles @sreejan_kumar @princeton_nlp in short, there's so much chatgpt hype going around. is this and that written by AI? we as humans deserve to know!
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@nandoodles @sreejan_kumar @princeton_nlp wow! woke up this morning, and did not expect so many ppl here! if the apps' not working rn it's likely because my free @streamlit hosting was not meant to handle so many ppl. going to reboot and try again :)
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@ChanaMessinger hey chana, I'm currently testing with datasets of student written news articles, hopefully eventually out in a paper :)
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thanks @DataChaz and rest of the @streamlit team for generously upping gptzero’s hosting and memory :))
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. @bellingcat I had the great fortune to work with @IwriteOK who's reporting and coverage of alt-right groups has been a real inspiration for many journalists this week. Here's a shoutout to his amazing work:
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And just wanted to acknowledge some special people that made this possible and have left indelible marks on my education @deborahamos @karthik_r_n @sreejan_kumar @selectedwisdom @trbrtc @muyixiao @danielsilas @johanna_wild @bendobrown
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Last week the NYT sued Open AI. This week we are building a free universal AI copyright check for anyone to use.
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@SydneyFreedberg we're still studying implicit bias in LM generated text right now, so hopefully will be adding a few more tests and factors to improve the model
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when your flight is delayed 5 hours but got to hang out with the great @AndrewYang , learned a lot about policy and AI while waiting at the airport ✈️
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Things you didn’t know about the QAnon conspiracy theories (that are relevant for 2020) based on my data investigations with @bellingcat A thread ...👇🏼
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While you’re here, please check out Origin, our new chrome extension. Goal is not just AI detection, but to filter for toxicity, misinfo, fake news, verify source of info, and revolutionize media literacy in this AI world. We'd love feedback 🙏
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For my New Years resolution, I'm starting a weekly newsletter on tech and journalism. The first issue features investigation tips and tools from an award winning @bellingcat and NYT investigator, and personal role model @trbrtc !
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And as I’m about to graduate, thanks to the world’s best journalism department, professors @Joe_Stephens @deborahamos @svaneksmith @raziaiqbal , CS department @princeton_nlp @cocosci_lab , and @Yaolri @bertram_hill1 @RunakoCelina who made dropping school a year the most fun
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We'll be rolling out a new model GPTZeroX, and new features to GPTZero next week! You can get all the deets here:
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Always an honor to speak with the incredible @selectedwisdom Here are 7 life lessons distilled from over 25 years in National Security.
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Asked for some free GPUs yesterday We’re now pivoting to #GPUZero
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@MvanF thanks Martijn! haha
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The new GPTZero model now handles mix AI + human text, and highlights portions of text that are most likely to be AI generated, a key feature that educators in our community have been requesting.
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Pinch me. I'm really honored to be on the @BusinessInsider AI 100 list this year. Being the youngest and among the least experienced on the list is really humbling — especially alongside generational AI greats like Hinton and Urtasun. also a reminder of the speed of
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Racism for Sale is out today to watch. One of the proudest things I've ever worked on, with @RunakoCelina @Danielsilas @Yaolri #BBCAfricaEye #BBCEyeInvestigations
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delighted that GPTZero just won @Princeton 's 2023 pitch competition! thanks to @princetoneclub and our amazing judges
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Captioned: David meets Goliath. #GPTZero meets the CEO of industry giant Turnitin. Here's our startup slingshot and why we're not going to get crushed
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Said first demo was an invitation to present Origin to @tglocer who ran Reuters, and Mark Thompson, who led the NYT through its digital transition AND ran the BBC. Think it went well, here's our before and after pics with Mark!
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Overall, we're really excited to continue improving and building GPTZero, and I'm committed to keeping the website interface free for individual teachers and educators. Try it yourself at
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@SydneyFreedberg hey Sydney, totally! perplexity is a metric of randomness, or the degree of uncertainty a model has in predicting (assigning probabilities) to a text. lower perplexity = more AI preferred. but just by itself, perplexity is a really imperfect indicator of ai generation
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1/ QAnon conspiracy theory took a major turn January 2018 believing president Donald Trump speaks directly to them through Twitter
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4/ The terminology “Antifa”, now etched in American politics, started emerging in QAnon circles, and was already frequently used in 2018
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@VictorButoi Hey Victor. just saw this. not marketing it at all. I agree with what you said, the current beta is exactly what I built casually over school break, shouldn't be used to make academic decisions. all I can say, is we're building a better version
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Stoked to announce our new 10M Series A on TC, and to be working together with the amazing @nbt @jameskimEDU and @reachfund in defining the future of AI adoption. Same day, our team is releasing a new product — GPTZero docs, the future of transparent writing with built in AI
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GPTZero’s founders, still in their 20s, have a profitable AI detection startup, millions in the bank and a new $10M Series A
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@_RobertSchultz My roommates were two white ROTC dudes from New Jersey and Alaska, who never watched anime before in their lives. One of them saw me watching Dragon Ball Z, and joined, but the other one started making fun of him. Then we forced him to watch too. Now both are happy weebs.
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Published my first piece on @bellingcat today. Thank you @Johanna_Wild @NataliaAntonova @AricToler Could not have a better team of mentors, expert investigators, and writers to learn from as an aspiring journalist!
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What's 2020 without a plague of locusts? We know what you're thinking, "It gets worse?" Yep, it sure does! But hey, with the right tools, you can track the locusts swarms!
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Last year, we launched GPTZero to disrupt 'academic integrity' a space with a billion-dollar incumbent, Turn-it-in (some differences, we're a team of AI-native researchers that philosophically believe the 'plagiarism model', and teachers punishing students, should go obsolete;
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. @Yaolri is the best geolocation teacher! really fortunate to work and learn from such an incredible OSINT investigator; wrote out some of his advice in a post
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We’ve been busy building the past weeks. Today, we’re finally sharing what we’ve created with the world: Origin by GPTZero - A chrome extension that enables you to check for AI-generated content as you browse the web! #originbygptzero
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On terminology, I’m working with @billdthompson to research the semantics of over four years of Qdrops ... incredibly interesting because QAnon followers has preferred to use hidden and code terms in their discussions
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Congrats to Canadian Physicist Jim Peebles for winning the Nobel Prize today! Here’s a 10 second toast. @Princeton @umanitoba 🇨🇦
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5/ the idea was to link the “radical left” to communism based on historical anti-fascist and communism movements in Germany
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2/ The reason? Trump had misspelled a tweet, correcting consensual to consequential minutes after. 8chan (the platform at the time for QAnon posts) was bustling w discussions of the added letter “q”
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We also built out a Python API for organizations, that has been stress tested to handle high request volumes. Documentation here:
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Incredible sharing our vision for #GPTZero going forward and how it can help journalists with @AP news this week
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@ChFrancavilla @BardeyGoddie @Ecostard As a final note, I want to emphasize that these videos are not a reflection of Chinese people. There was plenty of push back when they first surfaced in China. I'm also ethnically Chinese, find these videos abhorrent, and have made lifelong friends in Africa to this day.
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Amazing welcoming the #OSINT #GOAT to @Princeton today @trbrtc who taught visual investigations and plane tracking to @deborahamos journalism students before their European reporting trip ✈️
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We keep hearing about how AI identification is failing ESL students, but this is an outdated view. short 🧵1/4
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When I say 'we', I mean an incredible team of friends who’ve joined me to work on #GPTZero , not least @Alexcdot who dropped out of PHD to lead R&D, @KusioOlivia NY's most talented designer, and @EdmondAtto Uganda's first Obama scholar who flew 24h to NY for a demo this week..
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Start of the GPTZero ML retreat at #YYZ airport🛬🇨🇦
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It's been months since ChatGPT talked about 'watermarking' their writing. tired of waiting so we built a way to ‘humanmark’ ours instead👇
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3/ Later that day there was a “Qdrop,” the official posts from Q that make the bedrock of the theories, that solidified the belief that Trump was speaking directly to the community via Twitter
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If you’re interested in more of this, keep an eye for some upcoming writings on @Bellingcat with @Johanna_Wild , and definitely read @IwriteOK and @jason_a_w ’s coverage on far right groups!
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This was two days before the midterm elections. We really need to take a closer look at QAnon discussions in 2018, literally the same voter fraud playbook being reused by Trump today
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Today our #BBCAfricaEye investigation #ThreeKillingsinKampala came out. During the months on this, I've been constantly thinking of my friends and brothers in Uganda, their health, safety and loved ones. Had a look back today in my diary on some entries in Uganda (a thread)
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These victims were mothers and fathers, locals and passers-by, children and unborn babies... ...shot and killed by the same security forces whose job it is to protect the citizens of Uganda.
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@billdthompson and I are also currently training a machine learning model using @TensorFlow to analyze and visualize connections between Q posts and their meanings! like this
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We also built a pipeline to handle file batch uploads in PDF, Word, and .txt format so you can run multiple files through GPTZero at ease!
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Yesterday night after we migrated our site to soft launch GPTZeroX (prior to sharing / fully launching today) we received 39.7k visitors and 2.2 million requests to GPTZero in one day ...
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8/ Doesn’t this bear eerie similarities to when Trump failed to condemn white supremacists and enabled the Proud boys w statements of “stand by”?
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launched a new website today! last minute easter egg, added in things for people to read when our AI scan is running so far its all my favorite journalists ... feel free to send quotes to add!
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9/ QAnon is an evolving and growing theory; and in 2018 it adopted massive voter fraud into the conspiracy theory
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Nobel prize winner and alum @Mariaressa makes it out of the Philippines, and is on her way to @Princeton . She speaks to students in our journalism panel from on the plane! alongside @raziaiqbal @BarbaraDemick @joe_stephens
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something else you might notice are the lightning fast processing speeds (esp. compared to our beta) thanks to our GPUs on AWS Lambda servers, which are pretty much just charging my credit card with each call!
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For example, from early Q posts, “Alice and Wonderland” is code for Hillary Clinton and Saudi Arabia; and “Operation Mockingbird” refers to the belief of a program where the people in power who are child traffickers have controlled the CIA and fake news media to hide their crimes
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13/ her passing removed this branch from popular Qanon discussion, but it illustrates how the conspiracy in its 48 month lifespan has taken ridiculous leaps to grow,
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When both Joe and Kristyn come to the installation you set up!!! #bestcouncillors ever @joe_cressy @kristynwongtam #openstreetsTO
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12/ QAnon groups believed that RBG was part of the occult and drinking the blood of children to stay alive. Why? because she was nominated by Bill Clinton, and thus connected to the Clintons.
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when 30,000 people signed up for GPTZero as a school project, I already thought it was unbelievable in the past year, we’ve continued to ship new products, delight new users, and grow to over 3M users fairly proud we’re now up there on the list of fastest growing companies on
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Back to being a campus reporter!! with our @princetonian editor-in-chief @emma_treadway
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been talking with @Evilsocket , we’re using his models right now to track down disinformation and agitators instigating violence in #Kenosha
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Oh i forgot to mention, thanks *a lot* to @Pinperepette , @edward_the6 and @chronic0ps for the data that helped me baselining the model without introducing personal bias.
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Robert's reporting — especially this piece the day before the breaching of the capital — are must reads for anyone interested in understanding the actors behind the events at the capital.
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Thanks @PrincetonCS for the shoutout!
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To ensure fair voting districts, five CS undergrads started , a free open-source online platform. It helps communities fill out questionnaires and draw themselves on a map, creating a database for the redistricting process.
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10/ Here’s a Q post from November 4th 2018: “We will protect the vote, all hands on deck.”
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@JaneFerguson5 and Yemense producer @ahmedbaider1 join our Princeton journalism class, 1 day after winning the Emmys, to share how they smuggled Jane into Yemen and the inspiration behind their reporting ... If this isn’t the coolest class in college I don’t know what is.
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11/ imo the Qanon theories have always been molded by elections. The core focus of the theories in 2016 was Hillary Clinton (running a child trafficking ring) which has evolved to connect the Clinton family with numerous others characters
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Might explain why many hardcore QAnon followers still prefer 8kun, 8chan, anonymous boards, for their core discussions and developments
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7/ Donald Trump’s statement on the “calm before the storm” in 2017 was interpret as supporting and enabling QAnon; “the storm” in the theory refers to a grand awakening demonstrating everything in QAnon is true
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For all the times I’ve read a @BenDoBrown Twitter analysis piece on @bellingcat and said that’s so cool ... it’s pretty cool to write one too #OSINT
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A new investigation from @edward_the6 focuses on inauthentic social media campaigns targeting @DrTedros , the director of the World Health Organization. Edward also included his data sets for you to take a look at as well!
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I’ve been using Perplexity for the last few months, but have noticed increasing numbers of AI-generated sources This is important because even if Perplexity claims its AI is better than ChatGPT if the sources are AI hallucinations, the output is AI hallucinated 🧵1/n
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for the longest time tech startups we're a monolith to me, but as we were🎉🙌one of our Ugandan engineers becoming a father on father's day, struck me how awesome/diverse our team really is, 75% of our eng team is Black 50% of our ML team are women 100% international/non-US 😎
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The end product, made and filmed by @ChFrancavilla @BardeyGoddie @ecostard Matthew Bradley, and rest of the phenomenal production team is nothing short of breathtaking to watch.
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Feb 22. I'll be discussing the future of education with @UNESCO and our roadmap for building #gptzero from a viral app into an AI solution for educators everywhere. Thanks @unesco_iite institute for organizing.
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Just published on @bellingcat ! four months after we first dived into a conspiracy dataset, and my first encounter with sentiment analysis, I'm especially grateful to my advisor @billdthompson
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Our month-by-month analysis reveals the story of QAnon’s growth, showing how this notorious conspiracy theory has been able to evolve its narratives and adapt to contradictions — potentially allowing it to live on.
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GPTZero is excited to partner with @knightfdn in sponsoring the Media Party’s journalism-tech Hackathon! as @jeremygilbert says instead of thinking about what gen ai can do, let’s focus on building what readers of news want.
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excited to try out @aryamankhawow @ZreikJorge @albertojrigail ’s new Ai wingman! is going to be a game changer
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1/ We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Vivid (), an AI wingman to build your web app. Just click a component on your screen, let AI generate all your boilerplate, and make in-browser edits that automatically sync with your source code.
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@wolfejosh dropping some knowledge on risk taking, emerging markets, disinfo ops, and everything in between @Lux_Capital
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back to the thread, 6/ Facebook (despite growing to be the host of many QAnon groups) is believed by the theory to be part of “operation mockingbird” and a tool used by the CIA for propaganda purposes
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Recently there was a Washington Post piece on GPTZero. Frustrating journalism that we didn't receive any chance to comment before publication. Here's what I shared to the author after. - emailed factual updates for @washingtonpost - wholeheartedly agree with the advice for
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Analysis: AI detectors like Turnitin and GPTZero suffer from false positives that can accuse innocent students of cheating. Here’s the advice of academics, AI scientists and students on how to deal with it.
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especially proud and so grateful to work with our team of four engineers now, who made sure this happened with zero crashes / network delays (as opposed to when GPTZero immediately crashed after going viral, when I was working on it myself)
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imo the most ridiculous branch of the theory that I found appeared in early 2019 ...
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My college roommate Trivan and I started interning @Microsoft @Azure together! coincidentally we’re working in the same office, also twinning today!
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"News is not 'content', readers are not 'users', stories are not 'syntheses' A truly free press controls its language from start to finish." Powerful read, maybe a good one for tech people.
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