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When an image, comment, or account can be synthetic, how do you decide who to trust?
Ross Thorpe, founder and CEO of Rooverse, joins Cody to discuss a social network built around verified human users, no AI-generated posts, chronological feeds, and community reporting. The conversation goes beyond the human-only pitch and into the trade-offs: identity friction, privacy, metadata checks, false positives, content provenance, growth, and how the platform plans to make money.
Ross says no AI-content detector is perfect. That limitation becomes the centre of the episode: a platform can make human-first rules and choose different incentives, but it cannot turn verification into certainty.
In this episode:
- Why deepfakes and synthetic content can erode trust even after the deception is exposed
- How Rooverse approaches user verification, AI-content detection, and human reporting
- The tension between privacy and identity checks
- Why chronological feeds change the platform's incentives
- The Rooverse-Lonestar collaboration, as described by the companies
- Quantum-safe messaging, growth, and Rooverse's business model
Guest and project links:
Rooverse: https://rooverse.app/
Ross Thorpe on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ross-thorpe-01768a45/
AI Trust Council roster: https://theailab.org/ai-trust-council
Sources:
Imperva 2025 Bad Bot Report: https://www.imperva.com/resources/resource-library/reports/2025-bad-bot-report/
Vaccari and Chadwick (2020), deepfakes and trust in news: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2056305120903408
Rooverse-Lonestar announcement: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/rooverse-and-lonestar-partner-to-protect-human-data-in-space-302774310.html
Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/ju6ZbB7YICk
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