Exponential: A Nexus Podcast Episode 10: Battling Misinformation
Oct 1, 2025
Dennis Yap, founder and CEO of AI Seer, and Shahruj Rashid, CTO, dive deep into the critical fight against misinformation. They share the motivation behind AI Seer, highlighting personal experiences with deception. Discover how their tool, Facticity, breaks down claims using trusted sources. They also discuss innovative uses in the crypto space and introduce an interactive Twitter bot for fact-checking. Plus, learn about their vision for integrating fact-checking directly into browsers to combat misinformation at its source.
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Truth At Your Fingertips
- AI Seer aims to put truth at your fingertips by fact-checking content in real time.
- The founders liken the tool to "antivirus for your mind" to fight scams and fake news.
Scam That Sparked Creation
- Dennis describes his VC experience where scammers exploited fabricated credentials and cost his firm millions.
- That personal encounter motivated him to build tools to detect deception at scale.
Atomic Claim Fact-Checking
- Facticity breaks content into atomic claims and fact-checks each against ranked sources.
- AI Seer weights high-quality, low-bias outlets and filters out open social media as primary sources.