AI-addicted journalist needed ChatGPT to tell him his puppy will have fewer accidents if walked more often

[highplainsdem]

https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-puppy-potty-data-kpi-key-potty-indicators-2026-6

New AI-powered puppy KPIs: Key Potty Indicators
By Alistair Barr
Author of the Tech Memo newsletter
Jun 13, 2026, 9:10 AM CT

A recent AI experiment involved feeding weeks of handwritten puppy potty logs into ChatGPT. My wife and I tracked every pee, poop, walk, and accident for our puppy Oliver, creating a new breed of KPI: Key Potty Indicators.

ChatGPT extracted the data from our scribbled notes and turned it into a fully formatted CSV file. Then it went to town charting the heck out of these KPIs.

It came up with a host of fancy metrics, including ARR (Accident Reduction Rate), LTV (Longest Time Void-free), PTP (Poop-to-Pee) ratio, WAF (Weekly Accident-Free) rate, and DPV (Daily Potty Volume).

This chart was useful, showing how accidents correlate with how often we walk Oliver.

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How did mere humans ever figure out how often to walk puppies before genAI chatbots?

This reminds me of so many social media posts I've seen from AI users who've apparently outsourced their brains to chatbots.

[Ocelot II]

1. That's just dumb. Anybody who's ever had a puppy knows you have to walk them often

or they'll pee on the floor. If you like collecting puppy pee and poo data for its own sake, go crazy, but maybe that time could be better spent walking the puppy.

[littlemissmartypants]

4. Exactly. It's ludicrous. Dumb people just keep getting dumber.

[UpInArms]

2. Whoever did that should not have a live animal in their care

They should stick to stuffed animals or toys

Also, no houseplants, as they would probably have to ask a computer app how to turn on the faucet

[canetoad]

5. This!

Just start with when they wake up and after they've eaten and you're nearly there with house training.

[GenThePerservering]

3. AI addled

[highplainsdem]

6. Certainly seems that way.

[TommyT139]

7. To be fair, he writes a tech column.

So it was a cute idea for a topic.

And now maybe he can deduct some puppy care from his taxes as a work expense?

Besides that, using AI is evil. And normalizing its use, for instance by churning out progressive memes or summarizing facts that could just be block-quoted from human sources, even to bolster good arguments -- is shoddy and colluding with that evil.