Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World

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• Phen@lemmy.eco.br ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Niantic always announced itself as a data company.

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• todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Unwittingly? They paid you in-game currency to collect “research data”. What did people think they were doing?

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• MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Um are we sure we want this data? Weren’t there some people who walked into traffic and fell down hills playing Pokémon Go?

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  • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Soon will find delivery robots trying to pull some amazing stunts, all thanks to the sacrifices of some daring Pokemon Go players. Good times ahead 🍿

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    • SteevyT@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      StUnt jUMP FaiLeD

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  • BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s why they are called pokemongos

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  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Tesla will buy them next week

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  • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Iirc a lot of people also taped their device to ceiling fans and stuff to get steps (to hatch eggs maybe? Idk I never played it)

    So we’ll have it directing people into circles for hours!

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Gonna end up driving into someone’s backyard because Pokemon Go put a Charizard in there.

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• PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’ll be interesting to see a Waymo or Tesla FSD follow the path of a few Pokémon Go spoofers through buildings or directly across a field.

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  • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not sure how they’ll manage the straight up teleportation I used to do. Live rural, definitely went to the beach 100km away daily lmao.

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    • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The modern day spoofing apps are really quite impressive. Teleportation or time travelling generally gets you an account strike fairly quickly, but some of the cleverer automatic walking functions are really quite cool.

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• slurpeesoforion@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They’ve been collecting this data for over a decade and are just now starting to figure out what to do with it.

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nah, they’ve always been selling it as Mao data. And I still 100% believe the NSA is involved

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    • Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hah wouldn’t that be something.

      Tbh they don’t need Niantic to do this. They can collect that info straight from phones. Back doors go brrrr (is that meme still relevant?)

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