Here is the startup’s link: https://eyou.social/

European social media startup eYou has secured €300,000 in pre-seed funding. The platform, developed in Bucharest, aims to create an alternative to X and Facebook with integrated AI fact-checking and transparent algorithms — its public launch is planned for May 2026. eYou was founded by French serial entrepreneurs Jasseem Allybokus (CEO) and Grégoire Vigroux (CCO), who have been living in Romania for over a decade. The investor is Croatian venture capital fund Fil Rouge Capital.

The core feature: users can request a fact-check on any post with a single click — an AI-generated assessment based on neutral sources that summarises the accuracy of statements. In addition, eYou offers a transparency feature that allows users to view and adjust the profile the algorithm builds about them.

      • Sepia@mander.xyzOPEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        I am also sceptical, though it may help if the bot provides a sources. The major problem is not so much the AI but the people who control the the AI algorithms and the training data.

        • DaGreenGobbo@feddit.ukEnglish
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          6 months ago

          But how many users will just see that it provided a source and then not actually look up that source to see if it a) exists and b) says what it says it says?

        • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.socialEnglish
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          6 months ago

          And remember how much the muskrat had to wrench into grok until it repeated his bullshit. It will hallucinate, but I would still think that it is better than nothing.

  • 0x0@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    6 months ago

    integrated AI fact-checking

    That’s an oxymoron and the fediverse already exists.

  • brillotti@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    Their name of choice for this service is terrible, but I like the initiative. Hopefully it won’t be a dead social app in half a year from launch.

    • Sunspear@piefed.socialEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Yeah I would be optimistic, but that’s a quite slim proposition if you’re saying that your product’s main selling point is… an ai-powered button that literally any other platform can add in in weeks too