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New Device Mounts to Your Toilet to Analyze Your Turds Using the Power of AI (futurism.com)
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[–] 54 points 1 year ago (5 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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year 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.”

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