You Can Now Contribute to World's First Poop Database to Help Train AI

It's not often that someone wants to see your poop, particularly connected to MIT, but here we are. Microbial health company Seed asks netizens to #giveashit and contibute to what's essentially the world's first poop database (at least officially). By uploading pictures of your feces, you can help scientists train an out-of-MIT health AI called auggi and, hopefully, 1 in 5 people in the US who suffer from chronic gut conditions like IBS. "We don't always think about stool as like a daily data -- I'm putting air quotes around "dump" -- but really, as a direct output of our gut health," said Ara Katz, the co-founder and co-CEO of Seed Health, in a The Verge report. To #GIVEaSHIT, like the company asks, it won't be enough to submit any old photo of your stool. You'll have to visit seed.com/poop,