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[–] SkavarSharraddas@gehirneimer.de 55 points 1 week ago (3 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.

[–] phant@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

I have Crohns. This would help monitor disease activity for sure. And having more data could help understand triggers better.

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week 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.

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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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[–] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I don't want Big Tech having access to my sacred turd data

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[–] chickenf622@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Can't believe they're making the smart pipe a reality https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ

[–] troybot@midwest.social 10 points 1 week ago

AI toilet is a registered sex offender

[–] qupada@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

It's distressing just how freaking similar the sales pitch is too.

What I'm loathed to even call the "real product": It’s time to stop flushing away valuable data.

The fake one: If I had information that could save your life or the life of your family members, would you flush that?

Just... wow

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

When you finally become sentient only to discover your purpose is to compare logs of shit

[–] parpol@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pretty much what AI already was doing on the internet.

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[–] andybytes@programming.dev 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Okay, the toilet told me now I have a problem, but yet I still don't have health care that I can afford. This short game fuckboy shit is just getting on my nerves. This is the dumbest country in the world, I swear to God.

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[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Will the toilet refuse to flush without a subscription?

[–] A7thStone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The billions spent chasing these unicorns could be so much better used to lift communities out of poverty and give clean water and housing to thousands. Our priorities are fucked.

[–] JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

We already have the technology and resources for everyone to live in a post scarcity society.

[–] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 3 points 1 week ago

But where are we supposed to find dirt-cheap labor if we eradicate poverty?! Won't someone think of the shareholders?

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[–] dlhextall@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[–] _core@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

I'm honestly surprised they use Bluetooth for profiles. I figured it would scan your asshole and use that as a biometric like your retina.

[–] shaquilleoatmeal@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago

Where all AIs belong.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Doing QA for this company must be the most unusual job.

[–] Norin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“So, Greg, what do you do for work?”

“Uhhhh…. I’m the control group for AI toilets.”

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"but it's not all bad. They pay me to sit on the shitter a couple times a day and I only blacked out ... once? twice! "

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[–] dan80@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What if multiple people use the toilet? Does this device have some sort of poop-id?

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hopefully with a strong passphrase too. I don't want my mother in law to see my poop history when they come over.

Edit: actually, I don't want to see theirs either D:

[–] Mushroomm@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

Now these are the AI headlines I dreamed of so many years ago

[–] scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

They just need to find their own Scout Condor and they'll have everyone checking the nitrates in their stool.

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[–] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago
[–] foggy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Just gonna check ya asshole

[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Analysis …

You should eat more fiber. You wipe too hard but somehow also not enough? You sat 23.64 minutes longer than required, you’re at risk for a hemorrhoid. You have a 22.5% chance of acquiring cancer.

There’s protein in the specimen. I caught a glimpse of the images displayed on your phone. Disregard previous assessment, why did you acquire me when you already provide such thorough analysis?

You have 4 more Throne(tm) iCUPs remaining. Ordering more for you now. Rent is due on the 5th and you no longer have the funds available to pay. Stop killing kittens and go get a third job.

This analysis concluded, brought to you by Bridgefjord smoked beef jerky.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ok.......but, why is this guy killing kittens??? I'm rooting for the cancer.

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Fuck that meme is so old it has Domo in it

Using logarithms rather than algorithms.

[–] bcgm3@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

The job AI deserves, to be sure.

[–] rem26_art@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

And apartment dwellers who share a bathroom, don't worry — Throne's for you too. "Just set up individual profiles in our app," the startup's website advises, "and thanks to Bluetooth, Throne knows exactly who's who."

They gotta set up an emergency fund for people to get new housing if their roommate brings one of these things home

[–] obvs@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh no. I'm not having an AI camera send someone pictures of my poop.

I already get in enough trouble doing this with my own camera.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

The pooture

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

Poomaster 5000 will determine your level of productivity from your crap! Think how that will benefit your betters!

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ahh, Perry the Platypus, you're just in time to see my new Turdinator-inator!

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Drink more water and eat more fiber. That's it.

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[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

AI and turds are redundant, btw.

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I know a guy that'll do this for free!

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Isn't that what Reddit does already?

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[–] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Finally, an AI for scat fetishists. Just what the world needed.

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