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ianhillmedia t1_j243azr wrote

Late entry for quote of the year: “If this were easy, somebody would have done it already, we were both surprised nobody tried to have done it, and then when we got into it. ‘Wow, it’s really difficult.”

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ianhillmedia t1_j243z7p wrote

It’s definitely worth reading the article for context; the headline over-promises. It only has $100K in funding and it’s being developed by two researchers at a college in Illinois. The audience isn’t the average person - they want to create something that will send doctors an alert when medical misinformation is spreading so that those doctors can use their communication channels to spread facts. They also say it’s at least a few years away from launch.

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