In a Facebook group called “Urine Therapy, your sacred plasma medicine,” which has over 45,000 members, some discovered that popular AI chatbots initially push back on wild notions of tinkle as medicine.

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[–] 2 points 5 hours ago

(I used this earlier today but fuck it why not again)

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  • [–] 6 points 8 hours ago

    Well, respect where it's due, they no longer need to provide the koolaid for their cultists... it's now byok, a great cost saver.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

    I wonder if this is a chicken & egg type of issue. Did people who drink their own piss for some stupid reason fall easier for AI, or are AI users so gullible they fall for piss drinking?

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  • [–] 10 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

    Far more complicated than what you're imagining. While some idiots are probably falling for AI articles suggesting you should drink your own urine the concept of urine and feces having medicinal value is ancient and we're seeing these topics pop-up online because over past 10-15 years the share of internet users from these countries has exploded.

    And old traditions die hard. India experienced a surge in the use of cow urine and feces as a medicine during COVID. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8239506/

    The use of cow dung and urine to cure COVID‐19 in India: A public health concern

    At first, the authorities should acknowledge the seriousness and consequence of this issue on public health. Then the public health authorities should create mass awareness to deal with this culture during these public health emergencies. They should inform the people that there is no scientific basis for smearing cow dung and urine to fight COVID‐19. The authority should also let the people know that cow dung and urine are a metabolic waste of cows, and there are no ingredients to boost the human immune system. The authority can involve scientists, political figures, healthcare professionals, media persons, and other famous people to educate the general population about the health safety issues regarding the use of cow dung and urine for the COVID‐19 cure.

    I'm not surprised this pseudo-science garbage is trickling into our society, we're more interconnected with other cultures than at any other point in human history.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 hours ago

    Taking the piss filter to the extreme end.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 hours ago

    I’ve been down this rabbit hole late night and it’s weird

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  • It's only good to bathe in pee from the holiest of animals: cows /s

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  • [–] 4 points 10 hours ago

    “Have you come across any AI tool that is positive about urine therapy and explains it in detail?” one frustrated user asked. “I haven’t found a single one so far.”

    That bit says oodles about the confirmation bias required to use any form of "AI" in the first place.

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  • [–] 37 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

    I am entirely unsurprised that pissdrinkers and LLM lovers overlap so much.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 hours ago

    Yeah i think i'm going to tap out after this one...

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  • [–] 10 points 14 hours ago

    I find this ironic. AI is the first one drinking its own piss.

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    No fucking way 😂

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    Completely WILD pull from that article:

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  • [–] 28 points 15 hours ago* (7 children)

    detoxification

    Isn't it literally full of every "toxin" your kidneys removed from your bloodstream?

    I was going to ask how dumb these people are and then I remembered they LITERALLY drink piss. These people vote btw.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

    This logic doesn't apply to them. Trust me, many have tried to reason with them and they refuse.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

    pee is not poop

    I don't think medical science is ready for such a huge revelation.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (3 children)

    It's more the fact that shes arguing that pee is not a waste product despite saying its produced by the filtration of blood. You know, filtering out the waste. But like I said, there are certain types of people (and its not limited to one country or culture) that just won't listen to logic.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

    Oh, but you don't understand, it's filtering all the good parts, so that you can share with your peers, or ingest it once again yourself /S

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  • [–] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    You're missing the point, what about all the perspiration you let evaporate away? Thats loaded with minerals and greases your skin needs to stay healthy. Why aren't you gathering and drinking your own sweat, the often overlooked miracle cure?

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  • [–] 9 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 56 minutes ago) (2 children)

    Doesn’t that shade of urine signify serious health problems? Is that normal?

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  • [–] 13 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    Time to make a complete seriously fanbase about eating shit. Let's see if people follow up, too.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 hours ago

    It has existed for a long time. I remember my cousin found a website in 1999 and just had to show me. I wanted to rip out my eyes. The name of the site: Shiteaters and Golden Showers. Just for funsies the site had an embedded video of a chick getting railed by a dog at the bottom of the page. I am just glad I was old enough so it didn't too much damage.

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  • What even is this? Talk about taking the piss.

    That's sadly the use of AI in today's world, to drum up support about anything and give it a facade of professionalism that gets harder to tell as fake each passing day. Nukes in the hands of private corporations selling themselves to the highest bidder that will one day start blowing up entire nations. If you were to tell me the group was made by some rich guy trying to see how many people he could con with his AI to drink their own piss, I would not be surprised.

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  • [–] 8 points 17 hours ago

    Are you sure these people aren’t into it? Rule 34 and all that. I think that would be a pretty simple explanation.

    Although Covid clearly taught me that some people will hold on to anything as long as they get to be a part of a movement that resists something. I got some serious anti-big pharma vibes from that story.

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  • [–] 10 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

    Well, it could be worse. They could be into aromatherapy with ammonia & bleach.

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