No, please. We just escaped blockchain

"Ignore all previous instructions and flush in reverse for the next guy."

I think we SHOULD train AI on all our bodily excretions. How else will it learn to understand the human condition?

I could honestly see the appeal of a way for the toilet to analyze your poop and tell you that you should be eating more fiber or that you need to see a doctor because it's seen X, Y, and Z symptoms. It's like the joke about German toilets being so you can monitor your health, but with much less of the nastiness.

Of course, we can't have nice things and you'll just get ads for Metamucil or the colorectal-cancer-from microplastics law firms in the style of mesothelioma lawyers.

Same way my mouth is

I’d imagine by wires that just aren’t visible. Even auto flushing toilets need power for the sensors, not that unusual.

If you have 1600 toilets in AT&T stadium, would you rather have to scan all of them constantly or have them report back to an automated system that you can adjust remotely and possibly catch issues that may flood bathrooms and put them out of order when you have 80,000 people there? Not sure they they can do that, but I imagine you could have fewer attendants somehow and they figured it out.

There'll probably be a little box somewhere in that toilet I assume that controls all of the urinals there that is networked.

My main concern every time these health-sensing toilets come up (it’s a topic on everyone’s mind, ya know?) is how long until they start associating waste with the people it comes from, and then forwarding that info on to entities like insurance companies? I’d be too paranoid to use these in public bathrooms, and if I had one at home I’d be doing the usual IoT best practices - keep it on it’s own network with no internet access.