Ought sponsors $500k–$5M Epistemics Fund for community notes and provenance tools
NathanpmYoung · x · 2026-11-11
Ought is sponsoring an Epistemics Fund on Lightcone Commons, organized by Nathan Young, planning $500k to $5M in grants to top recommended projects. Applications are due by 26 November (may extend, not close earlier), and every application also enters the standard Lightcone Commons round for other funders to back.
The fund seeks tools that help people work out what's true faster and at scale:
- Community notes: note-writer teams, AI note writers, rating tools and infrastructure to get notes onto more posts sooner;
- Notes beyond social media: on podcasts, papers, video and the open web — Common Notes are built natively into webpages, praised as the way to make community notes actually used outside X/Meta/TikTok;
- Provenance: C2PA support, reverse video search, synthetic-frame detection;
- Reliability tracking of public figures' accuracy;
- Trustworthy forecasting and prediction market tools;
- Credible plans for government adoption of decision-making tools.
Related event: Ought Launches Epistemics Fund with Up to $5M in Grants(8 posts)→
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