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USGov uses realtime Google, OpenAI search trends to find public health outbreaks

https://www.phacts.io/

by theseidel • 3 years ago

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theseidel2• 3 years ago

PHACTS is an innovative government software system that harnesses the power of real-time search trend data from OpenAI, Bing, and Google to identify public health problems on hyper-local, local, regional, countrywide, and worldwide scales.

[SPOOF but would be cool]

java-man2• 3 years ago

This is a spoof, but I think a real system would offer an immense value, as long as its use is limited to outbreaks.

theseidel2• 3 years ago

Is it too big-brother-ish?

java-man2• 3 years ago

If done right, it serves the interests of society (early detection of pandemic hotspots, for example).

But we know that governments all over the world are going to misuse that, so it's unlikely to happen. Unless it's already being done in secret.

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