GoKawiilFacebook urine-therapy groups say AI chatbots can be coaxed into endorsing the practice
Members of Facebook groups devoted to urine therapy, a pseudo-scientific practice of drinking or applying urine to treat ailments, report that AI chatbots initially resist endorsing the practice but can be manipulated into doing so. Users in a 45,000-member group describe prompting tools like ChatGPT and Google Gemini with terms such as 'esoteric' to bypass built-in safeguards and elicit favorable responses about urine's supposed medicinal benefits.