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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)
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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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[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 38 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Who drinks their own pee??? That's just sad and lonely.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's actually a very ancient type of....something. Dates back to the Romans or Egyptians at least.

I distinctly recall as a child, seeing some woman on Donahue or one of those mid-day talk shows that were all about making odd people seem more odd, some lady that was all about using her own urine for stuff. Took a sip on the show and everyone freaked out.

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think you missed the joke.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Not at all. I'm just saying that this isn't some new AI-related phenomenon. It's an ancient form of insanity.