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People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It’s a Miraculous Cure-All (futurism.com)

submitted 4 days ago by cannedtuna@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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The power of AI.

Long story short, AI initially pushed back on the ridiculous idea that drinking your own piss was a cure all, then these users figured out that adding words like ‘esoteric’ to their prompts let them direct AI to tell them what they wanted to hear.

Tbh article was too gross for me to finish. That’s all you get from me for a summary.

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[–] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Does blood count as a bodily fluid? Pretty sure there's no bacteria there

[–] Tomato666@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If you visit the dentist, then (in the UK) you are not meant to donate blood for the next two weeks.

Any trauma in the mouth from the dentistry will allow mouth bacteria into your bloodstream, and whilst it'll be okay for you a weaker person may not do well from the subsequent transfusion.

[–] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Interesting, I wonder if the US has similar laws?

[–] johnyreeferseed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

In the US the dentist draws your blood and then sells it on the side. Guys gotta make ends meet somehow.

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 days ago

If you have any small wounds, e.g. in your gums, mucosa, etc, yes there are.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If that were remotely true, we wouldn't need an immune system.

[–] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Reverse causation. We don't have bacteria in our blood because we have an immune system

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Our immune system isn't that efficient. There's always at least some bacteria in there. Just not enough to kill us, most of the time.

[–] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

That doesn't sound right. We'd be perpetually bacteremic if that were the case.

Seems there's a paper on this (doi 10.1038/s41564-023-01350-w) that showed that 84% of people don't have bacteria in their blood. Authors hypothesized based on the detected bacteria that the remaining 16% were likely temporary colonizations and not permanent.

So for the most part, blood appears to be sterile with some possibility of temporary low level bacteremia

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 days ago

Not on a good day, anyway.

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago

Yes blood is a fluid from the body and bloodborne illness are absolutely a thing.