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Kohler, the makers of a smart toilet camera, can access customers' data stored on its servers, and can use customers’ bowl pictures to train AI.

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[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (9 children)

What could they possibly tell me about my health by visually inspecting my shit? I see the website mentions detecting blood, but pretty sure I can do that too...

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (6 children)

The colour can say a lot of different things than just showing blood in your stool.

Also, if you have red blood in your toilet after shitting, it's probably a popped hemorrhoid, but if your shit is black and tarry, that's digested blood, could be from an upper GI-bleed.

If your shit is orange/yellowish and floaty, youre clearly not absorbing fat correctly for some reason.

There's all sorts of things you can tell from shit. I've actually logged hundreds of photos of shit to an e-mail address (because I want to store them but not in my phone's gallery).

I'm waiting on going to a good gastroenterologist hopefully.

But idk if I'd trust an ai analysing them, but proper doctors should be able to.

Edit here https://gutscharity.org.uk/advice-and-information/poo-torial/

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

The size, shape, consistency, color are all telling of something going on.

Tie that in with tracking changes in diet and can learn a lot.

Tracking what you eat in detail is still a bitch though.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Tracking what you eat in detail is still a bitch though.

For this too, the camera is kinda helpful. Just snap a photo and the write it down later. Or don't write it down and just have the photos there and "I'm sure I'll remember when I look at it"

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