Guest
Camille François
Founding President, ROOST
Real Alpha has cut 8 moments of Camille François (Founding President, ROOST) talking, from an interview on Possible published Oct 7, 2026.
What Camille François said
Discord turned a vendor shutdown into shared safety infrastructure
“We just got the rug pulled super, super brutally from under our feet.”
Camille François17:36 Safety teams need tools for investigation and review, not just detection
“We re-released Coop a few months ago as the world's first end-to-end tool that allows for the detection, review and enforcement of child sexual abuse material fully open source.”
Camille François27:29 A two-person app used open-source tools to report 19 cases
“And they deployed it. And in two weeks, they found 19 incidents of child sexual exploitation that they were able to report to NECMEC.”
Camille François52:00 Social media was a detour from tech’s open foundations
“the way we built the foundation of tech around us is on open protocol and on open source software”
Camille François9:54 Open source makes safety tools a one-way door
“Open source is a one-way door, right? So when OpenAI says we are actually going to share this model under an Apache 2 license”
Camille François12:13 Shared safety tools can help startups compete
“if everybody has a shared foundation of tools, then it's much easier for your clients to plug into the amazing technology that you're building.”
Camille François33:21 Shared tools can be open without exposing every detection rule
“saying we open source the infrastructure doesn't mean saying you have to share all of the rules for all of the investigative work that you're doing.”
Camille François36:58 Adding safety to AI apps is still a multi-step process
“And you have to go and then register with, you know, the authorities on one hand and then go ask for a hash bank”
Camille François48:01
The episode
Building safety tools no one can take away with ROOST’s Camille François
Camille François · Founding President, ROOST
17:02of 1:23:05 · Oct 7
