Inspiration We noticed that youth are heading down a VERY GRIM path of misinformation through social media, especially on forum sites such as Reddit, 4chan, etc.
What it does NOBUL is a web browser extension that determines whether information is simply not true, if it’s an argument that is based around a logical fallacy to propel a narrative, if it is a common misconception and it also provides real time counter examples to showcase one of those situations. How we built it We used Python, FastAPI for the backend and JavaScript for the frontend. A combination of 3 LLM’s: OpenAI, Gemini and Groq. They all collaborate in determining the best possible answer to give the client and generate well checked and peer reviewed answers. Challenges we ran into This was our first-ever Hackathon, and we had many VERY ambitious ideas around a web browser extension that could help identify logical fallacies. Our first idea was to use the extension directly on YouTube debates with a transparent bubble over each speaker and identifying if their argument had any logical fallacies. This approach was way too heavy and costly for an extension. So we decided to work on more text-based websites where debates happen a lot, like Reddit, 4chan, etc.
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