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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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[–] deft@lemmy.wtf 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Alright real question though. Didn't Romans use it to whiten teeth and doesn't it help with athletes foot or something?

Not saying use piss there are other probably better alternatives just heard these before and am curious about their veracity

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Human piss is a very useful precursor for useful chemicals like potassium nitrate and Ammonia, but theres no good reason to mess with the raw product. I hadn't heard about the teeth thing.

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

Appears to be a common myth. They apparently did however collect it for ammonia and phosphorus extraction and for use in cleaning agents. There’s a couple articles on dispelling the myth, but this one looked like a good read. (Unfortunate domain name with the topic at hand, however)

https://www.tastesofhistory.co.uk/post/dispelling-some-myths-romans-cleaned-their-teeth-with-urine