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handfuloflighttoday at 3:24 AM2 repliesview on HN

I'm so sorry for the people who work on this and have to look at the data.


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tasty_freezetoday at 4:26 AM

The old adage is "garbage in, garbage out". s/garbage/feces/g

This sounds like the marketing department came up with this "market opportunity" and then some poor team at Kohler was asked to make it real.

No doubt there is health data to be had in waste products (it was used extensively during covid to figure out community-wide infection rates) but that used physical samples that were then analyzed. Trying to figure out if someone has a UTI, or pathogenic poop from a webcam image ... it is hopeless.

adamwong246today at 4:03 AM

some poor soul has to do train this AI. Imagine your job is categorizing pictures of poop