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You’re telling me there’s zero valuable information in photos of feces?

Nope. I’m saying a private company and whatever training set they have, plus a cheap RGB camera and an AI model, is not going to give you any information that you can’t derive by simply looking at the feces yourself, much like the table you just linked. Though that table itself is an oversimplification that, being unable to take other parameters into account, also contains potentially misleading conclusions.

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artyom@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

is not going to give you any information that you can’t derive by simply looking at the feces yourself

Yes and you don’t have to hire a plumber to fix your sink if you’re a plumber.

The point is:
1. Professional analysis
2. (more importantly) Automated logging (no pun intended), potentially for human medical review periodically, or at a later date.

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- kadup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  Yes and you don’t have to hire a plumber to fix your sink if you’re a plumber.
  
  You are severely misunderstanding the point being made. Imagine you have a leaky pipe, you hire a professional plumber, they charge you $500 and say “yep, I can take a look and I conclude it’s a leaky pipe!”
  
  What I’m precisely telling you is that this company can’t provide the professional analysis you just commented.
  
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  - artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    
    this company can’t provide the professional analysis you just commented.
    
    And why not?
    
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    SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    Because there is more that goes into telling if someone is unhealthy than just looking at their stool. And the few signs that DEFINITELY point to health issues would be assessable by the average person just looking at their poop.
    
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