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‘We don’t want to be a policeman of the Internet’: How a John McPhee student turned GPTZero into a $30 million AI-detection business

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‘We don’t want to be a policeman of the Internet’: How a John McPhee student turned GPTZero into a $30 million AI-detection businessWorldPing
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What happened

Edward Tian and Alex Cui are happy to be "the Splash Brothers of anti-AI slop," but they aren't really against using AI to write things.

Key facts

  • Reported by Fortune and published Fri, 02 Oct 2026 07:00:00 UTC.

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