Your AI Fitness Ring May Be Lying to You (But Just Ignore It and Enjoy Your Health Data Privacy)

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A confident idiot is a dangerous thing (even if well intentioned).

Like Chevy’s uncle Steve, who is now banned within the extended family from working on anyones cars.

The man is convinced he’s a mechanic, just because he goes to one or two car shows per year. In reality he knows nothing and has done thousands of dollars of damage to multiple family members’ cars.

Which is why we’re excited, but also a little skeptical of Cudis’ Genesis Smart Ring.

It’s a web3 and AI enabled fitness tracker (kind of like the Oura ring), which will build AI-generated workout plans for its users, and reward them with crypto when they complete a workout.

We’ve actually written about it before — we love that it gives users full control over their health data, allowing them to even go as far as to sell it anonymously if they so choose.

But the newly announced AI generated workout plans?

We’re not sure we trust them as much.

Not because we think anything nefarious or damaging will come of it — more that it’ll actually be less effective than a cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all workout plan.

Because AI has a tendency to hallucinate and deliver laughably wrong information, with sheer, unadulterated confidence (see header image ☝️).

And until that can be reliably solved for, we can’t help but paint AI and uncle Steve with the same brush.

Either way, the product itself is still super cool thanks to its privacy features, and the fact that it pays you to workout.