# Camille François

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Real Alpha has cut 8 moments of Camille François (Founding President, ROOST) talking, from an interview on Possible published Oct 7, 2026.

- Role: Founding President, ROOST

## What Camille François said

- [Discord turned a vendor shutdown into shared safety infrastructure](https://realalpha.app/s/discord-turned-a-vendor-shutdown-into-shared-safety/)
  Possible · Oct 7, 2026 · 2 min
  > “We just got the rug pulled super, super brutally from under our feet.” — Camille François · [17:36](https://realalpha.app/v/RQpx17UAK9M/?t=1056)
- [Safety teams need tools for investigation and review, not just detection](https://realalpha.app/s/safety-teams-need-tools-for-investigation-and-review-not/)
  Possible · Oct 7, 2026 · 3 min
  > “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 François · [27:29](https://realalpha.app/v/RQpx17UAK9M/?t=1649)
- [A two-person app used open-source tools to report 19 cases](https://realalpha.app/s/a-two-person-app-used-open-source-tools-to-report-19-cases/)
  Possible · Oct 7, 2026 · 3 min
  > “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 François · [52:00](https://realalpha.app/v/RQpx17UAK9M/?t=3120)
- [Social media was a detour from tech’s open foundations](https://realalpha.app/s/social-media-was-a-detour-from-techs-open-foundations/)
  Possible · Oct 7, 2026 · 3 min
  > “the way we built the foundation of tech around us is on open protocol and on open source software” — Camille François · [9:54](https://realalpha.app/v/RQpx17UAK9M/?t=594)
- [Open source makes safety tools a one-way door](https://realalpha.app/s/open-source-makes-safety-tools-a-one-way-door/)
  Possible · Oct 7, 2026 · 2 min
  > “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 François · [12:13](https://realalpha.app/v/RQpx17UAK9M/?t=733)
- [Shared safety tools can help startups compete](https://realalpha.app/s/shared-safety-tools-can-help-startups-compete/)
  Possible · Oct 7, 2026 · 5 min
  > “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 François · [33:21](https://realalpha.app/v/RQpx17UAK9M/?t=2001)
- [Shared tools can be open without exposing every detection rule](https://realalpha.app/s/shared-tools-can-be-open-without-exposing-every-detection/)
  Possible · Oct 7, 2026 · 3 min
  > “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 François · [36:58](https://realalpha.app/v/RQpx17UAK9M/?t=2218)
- [Adding safety to AI apps is still a multi-step process](https://realalpha.app/s/adding-safety-to-ai-apps-is-still-a-multi-step-process/)
  Possible · Oct 7, 2026 · 3 min
  > “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 François · [48:01](https://realalpha.app/v/RQpx17UAK9M/?t=2881)

## The episode

- [Building safety tools no one can take away with ROOST’s Camille François](https://realalpha.app/v/RQpx17UAK9M/) · Possible · Oct 7, 2026