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.
18 Comments
Diurnambule@jlai.lu · 48 pts · 164d
Lol Ai Fact checker wonderfull
warmaster@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 164d
" eYou: Hallucination is better than facts™ "
Sepia@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 164d
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.uk · 2 pts · 164d
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.social · 1 pts · 164d
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.zip · 16 pts · 164d
That's an oxymoron and the fediverse already exists.
HumbleExaggeration@feddit.org · 9 pts · 164d
So the big feature is grok, but maybe with less alternative facts?
Sunspear@piefed.social · 3 pts · 164d
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
halfapage@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 164d
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 164d
But where is the decentralised moderation? The anti-fascist stuff? Will it be a worker co-op?
atro_city@fedia.io · 6 pts · 164d
Watch it flop. There's no need for it when you have the fediverse.
brillotti@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 164d
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.
atcorebcor@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 164d
Misinformation is just one problem with social media. What about journalism not being paid ad revenue as it goes to the social media instead? Algortihmic freedom? Network effects (interoperability)?
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org · 3 pts · 164d
If you don't trust the weathergirl, have it checked by a fortune teller!
SW42@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 164d
Cool. I dont see the point but cool…
one_old_coder@piefed.social · 1 pts · 160d
Can you really fix social issues with technology? I'm not sure it ever worked before.
Sepia@mander.xyz · 0 pts · 160d
No, you can't imo so I fully share you scepticism. As I said in my other comment, it may help by providing some sources, but it's not the solution itself imo.
NorskSud@piefed.social · 1 pts · 164d
Who's the hottie?
alexquiniou@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 164d
I'm sceptical ... But prove me wrong