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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago

Okay, the toilet told me now I have a problem, but yet I still don't have health care that I can afford. This short game fuckboy shit is just getting on my nerves. This is the dumbest country in the world, I swear to God.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Will the toilet refuse to flush without a subscription?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Weird. I see lots of red

[–] _core 12 points 6 days ago

I'm honestly surprised they use Bluetooth for profiles. I figured it would scan your asshole and use that as a biometric like your retina.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

They just need to find their own Scout Condor and they'll have everyone checking the nitrates in their stool.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Smart pipe

Oh, and it’s also the only technology to be a registered sex offender.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Ahh, Perry the Platypus, you're just in time to see my new Turdinator-inator!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Poomaster 5000 will determine your level of productivity from your crap! Think how that will benefit your betters!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Based out of — where else — Austin, Throne is a bold new startup leveraging AI to revolutionize the way we interact with our toilet.

Am I out if the loop on poop jokes and Austin?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Not even your shittiest moments will be out of reach for the AI.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago
[–] BananaPeal 1 points 6 days ago

I feel like this is an acceptable use for AI. Nobody likes studying poop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I have nothing against this in principle, but you just know that this too will be an enshittified product, literally and figuratively .

It'll sell your health data, etc etc etc.

This would only be an acceptable product if open source, period (and that too might and probably will be analyzed)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Just a screen that says, "corn again, huh?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Now poopin #2573819 analyzing.... Not mouse based on diameter, not horse due to consistency, not human or dog according to length. Cow not detected via splat-o-meter measuring system.

Wombat detected!

Geometry based wombat detection system has detect wombat poop. 50% confidence. It could also be Lego.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

AI is automating the job of the owners of "sick toilets" (that's what we call those weird toilets with the poo shelves).

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 days ago

fucking gay woke ai telling to eat more vegetables

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

Shit's gett'n creeeepyyy

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Poop jokes and big tech's data hunger aside, this seems to me one of the more useful applications of AI: Checking for early signs of medical problems.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

During covid, cities were testing the sewage to get an idea how many people had covid. We should have like a lever to tell the toilet who is shitting, and it could route the waste to a personal testing chamber.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

We should have like a lever to tell the toilet who is shitting

Or just an extra upward facing camera.

Kids in 2050: “Everybody knows the myth that no two buttholes look alike is just an urban legend to convince you to reverse image search your butthole against the TOTO leak of 2034.”

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

I have Crohns. This would help monitor disease activity for sure. And having more data could help understand triggers better.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago

I don't want Big Tech having access to my sacred turd data

[–] chickenf622 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Can't believe they're making the smart pipe a reality https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

It's distressing just how freaking similar the sales pitch is too.

What I'm loathed to even call the "real product": It’s time to stop flushing away valuable data.

The fake one: If I had information that could save your life or the life of your family members, would you flush that?

Just... wow

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

AI toilet is a registered sex offender

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (4 children)

When you finally become sentient only to discover your purpose is to compare logs of shit

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The billions spent chasing these unicorns could be so much better used to lift communities out of poverty and give clean water and housing to thousands. Our priorities are fucked.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (3 children)

We already have the technology and resources for everyone to live in a post scarcity society.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

But where are we supposed to find dirt-cheap labor if we eradicate poverty?! Won't someone think of the shareholders?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] -5 points 6 days ago

But everyone doesn't want to live in a post-scarcity society. Lack of survival challenge leads to mental degradation.

[–] dlhextall 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Where all AIs belong.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Doing QA for this company must be the most unusual job.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I actually interviewed for a data science role with this company a couple years ago. They were definitely cagey about what the actual product was for the initial screenings and then when they finally opened up about the role and ...duties... of poop data scientist, it was actually pretty funny.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“So, Greg, what do you do for work?”

“Uhhhh…. I’m the control group for AI toilets.”

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[–] Mushroomm 10 points 1 week ago

Now these are the AI headlines I dreamed of so many years ago

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

What if multiple people use the toilet? Does this device have some sort of poop-id?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Just gonna check ya asshole

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Using logarithms rather than algorithms.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We're definitely living in the pooture

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Analysis …

You should eat more fiber. You wipe too hard but somehow also not enough? You sat 23.64 minutes longer than required, you’re at risk for a hemorrhoid. You have a 22.5% chance of acquiring cancer.

There’s protein in the specimen. I caught a glimpse of the images displayed on your phone. Disregard previous assessment, why did you acquire me when you already provide such thorough analysis?

You have 4 more Throne(tm) iCUPs remaining. Ordering more for you now. Rent is due on the 5th and you no longer have the funds available to pay. Stop killing kittens and go get a third job.

This analysis concluded, brought to you by Bridgefjord smoked beef jerky.

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