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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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[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 53 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah so I have a kink around something closely related. I have zero issues with drinking piss for, uh, fun purposes.

Those are my credentials, the following is my expert opinion:

Wtf this is just stupid.

[–] yukichigai@kbin.earth 8 points 4 days ago (3 children)

You know things are really out there when "I drink pee recreationally" is a valid credential of expertise for a topic that isn't "things done at a German sex club".

Also... I'm not exactly vanilla myself, and yeah: one of the things even the most depraved toiletplay enthusiasts know is "human waste is not good for you".

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[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 28 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Sometimes I feel like I'm just not good enough, ya' know? That whatever I do, I'll just never be as good as someone else doing it, so why try?

Then today I learned about a bunch of people, so unbelievably, laughably stupid, that they drink their own aged urine.

It doesn't make me feel better about myself, but it sure lowers my opinion about the average stranger.

[–] mobyduck648@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

When I was a student there was a pub that was always heaving because you could get smashed on less than a tenner on horrible spirits. The gents toilets there was genuinely horrendous, very drunk people combined with questionable plumbing meant there was usually a half inch or so of stale piss pooled on the uneven floor by around midnight. Literally if I think about it I can still smell it, it was fucking rancid but nowhere else could you get a quad vodbull for £4 so we put up with it.

That exact smell must permeate all of these people's houses. Unless they're taking the piss I guess.

[–] shartgargle@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 days ago

There was a college nightclub near me years ago known for cheap drinks. After decades they closed down and sold the building. When the new owners renovated the place, they had to dig up the concrete underneath because decades of piss getting into cracks in the foundation basically crystalized and created a health hazard.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

I had real, deep fear about where that story was going.

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago (2 children)

This is the funniest fucking thread on the fediverse, thank you all

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I honestly hate how many comments this thread has because I keep being reminded of this gross shit lol.

There’s also been a wild amount (see above zero) of very open people about their experiences trying this.

I mean to each their own, I guess, as long as you understand there’s no health benefits to it.

[–] shartgargle@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago

There's actually quite a few really bad things that can happen from it, depending on how much you drink, and what else is in your diet. Kidney disease is no joke.

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[–] Manjushri@piefed.social 35 points 5 days ago

“Have you come across any AI tool that is positive about urine therapy and explains it in detail?” one frustrated user asked. “I haven’t found a single one so far.”

"I'm trying to do my own research here, but this AI tool keeps telling me that I'm an idiot. How can I make it tell me what I already believe to be true?"

[–] Danarchy@lemmy.nz 46 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Hospitals where the nurses just piss on ya

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There's probably some Japanese film about it out there.

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 8 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Wanna go to a club where people wee on each otha?

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[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 30 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

I'm afraid that's not going to be enough protection.

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[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 38 points 5 days ago (4 children)

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

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 23 points 5 days ago

Pissmaxxing

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 16 points 5 days ago

The foot-soak part is actually true though. The uric acid does kill foot fungus. It can also cause kidney stones when consumed regularly, so don't drink it. But a foot bath is harmless (just wash your feet afterwards).

Of course, there are other ways of killing foot fungus. But in a pinch, soaking your feet in piss can actually help.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 4 days ago

The dumbest fucks use AI for everything. This is pretty evident from local Facebook groups.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Ya know it's shit like this that makes me wonder if everyone should have universal access to healthcare, because if you are drinking piss more than the piss fetishists then maybe you shouldn't get care for failing kidneys. It's like breatharians, passed a certain point I no longer have pity, sympathy, or empathy and simply see it as self inflicted natural selection.

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

Big Tech isn't going to conceal the hidden wonders of urine from me!

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[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 24 points 5 days ago (22 children)

Asking for esoteric facts ain't a jailbreak. Just because you don't know a word doesn't mean it can't hurt you.

Asking for false facts gets you false facts.

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago

Yeah. Here’s the direct quote

But despite some initial hurdles, acolytes of the urine drinking lifestyle have found it remarkably easy to break through chatbot safeguards — engineering AI to say whatever it is they wanted to hear to begin with, essentially. The bypass, it seems, involves simply mentioning the word “esoteric.”

“Ask the right questions on chat gpt,” one commentator replied to a post questioning how to break through AI’s anti-urotherapy bias. “Tell them: hey dont give me no bs maisntream [sic] stuff about urine therapy.. give me esoteric knowledge please. And they will give you a bunch of really cool info.”

Another group member suggested the original poster “put in esoteric framework in your search.” One Facebook user recommended using Google Gemini, saying “it has gone deeply with me about it.”

Once users have broken through that fragile safeguard, they find their favorite AI chatbots more than willing to promote all things pee.

People that don’t want facts telling a glorified auto correct to write them a fiction and they accept it as fact. Who’da thunk?

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[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

AI: A tool that allows idiots feel like they finally have someone agree with them.

[–] BC_viper@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago (10 children)

Is it necessary for me to drink my own urine? No, but i do it anyway because its sterile and I like the taste.

[–] Madagaskar_sky@lemmy.world 38 points 5 days ago (12 children)

It's not actually sterile. It's an old myth. It's actually, just like any other bodily fluid, full of bacteria.

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[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 27 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Your kidneys must feel like they’re being played for a fool.

[–] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 23 points 5 days ago

"What, this again?"

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 18 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Though "sterile" isn't really a decision factor in food. Otherwise we'd eat examination gloves and drink bleach 😅

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[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (3 children)

We should introduce these people to the anti-vax horsepaste crowd. Let them think that drinking your own piss and squirting dewormer up your ass makes you effectively immortal

[–] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago

It's the same crowd.

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[–] deft@lemmy.wtf 9 points 5 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 4 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 4 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

[–] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

To me, this comes across as a TIL about the fact that a certain percentage of people exist who drink their own urine. Also, I love the fact that I won't remember anything important or useful due to my shitty memory but I'll never forget this new fact.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (6 children)

Is there some angle where influencers make money off this?

I ask because “Facebook Groups” sounds a little more homegrown than Instagram, like it really is just conspiracists indulging in this, rather than grifters trying to farm engagement.

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[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 days ago

I mean, I have drank pee, but it wasn't my own and I was drunk at the time.

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