‘Pokémon Go’ players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30 billion images.
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@alice @cyberlyra I hate it here. I hate it here. I hate it here. I hate it here.
@theorangetheme @alice @cyberlyra Let's remember that Niantic sold off Pokemon Go to Scopely who is owned by Savvy Games Group. So your current Pokemon data isn't training delivery robots but it's going somewhere...a little surprised the original article failed to mention this.
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‘Pokémon Go’ players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30 billion images.
The article closes with:
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So, next time you see someone in a park trying to “catch ‘em all,” it’s quite possible the data gleaned from that scavenger hunt could play a key role in determining whether the pizzas of the future make it to their destinations on time.
"""Haha, cute. Training pizza delivery robots with crowdsourced data (that players didn't know they were providing)—isn't that quirky.
Until it isn't...
What happens when they start selling that data to governments to help target drone strikes?
"""
That mapping effort got a significant boost in 2020, when the app added what it called “Field Research,” a feature prompting players to scan real-world statues and landmarks with their cameras in exchange for in-game rewards.
"""Corporations, dubious ethics, and money always end up in bed together, hate-fucking the 99%.
@cyberlyra https://hachyderm.io/@cyberlyra/116239245187011717
@alice @cyberlyra It's shit like this, not Roko's Basilisk, that keep me up at night. I don't feel like I would be important enough for an AI to care about, even if I could believe it was possible. This shit is exactly what so many sci-fi writers warned us about, and it's happening now.
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‘Pokémon Go’ players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30 billion images.
The article closes with:
"""
So, next time you see someone in a park trying to “catch ‘em all,” it’s quite possible the data gleaned from that scavenger hunt could play a key role in determining whether the pizzas of the future make it to their destinations on time.
"""Haha, cute. Training pizza delivery robots with crowdsourced data (that players didn't know they were providing)—isn't that quirky.
Until it isn't...
What happens when they start selling that data to governments to help target drone strikes?
"""
That mapping effort got a significant boost in 2020, when the app added what it called “Field Research,” a feature prompting players to scan real-world statues and landmarks with their cameras in exchange for in-game rewards.
"""Corporations, dubious ethics, and money always end up in bed together, hate-fucking the 99%.
@cyberlyra https://hachyderm.io/@cyberlyra/116239245187011717
@alice @cyberlyra noooooo why do they have to ruin everything??
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‘Pokémon Go’ players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30 billion images.
The article closes with:
"""
So, next time you see someone in a park trying to “catch ‘em all,” it’s quite possible the data gleaned from that scavenger hunt could play a key role in determining whether the pizzas of the future make it to their destinations on time.
"""Haha, cute. Training pizza delivery robots with crowdsourced data (that players didn't know they were providing)—isn't that quirky.
Until it isn't...
What happens when they start selling that data to governments to help target drone strikes?
"""
That mapping effort got a significant boost in 2020, when the app added what it called “Field Research,” a feature prompting players to scan real-world statues and landmarks with their cameras in exchange for in-game rewards.
"""Corporations, dubious ethics, and money always end up in bed together, hate-fucking the 99%.
@cyberlyra https://hachyderm.io/@cyberlyra/116239245187011717
@alice @cyberlyra Listen, I have another funny one, a guy makes a site naming it weird as faceb-- oh, you know it?
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‘Pokémon Go’ players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30 billion images.
The article closes with:
"""
So, next time you see someone in a park trying to “catch ‘em all,” it’s quite possible the data gleaned from that scavenger hunt could play a key role in determining whether the pizzas of the future make it to their destinations on time.
"""Haha, cute. Training pizza delivery robots with crowdsourced data (that players didn't know they were providing)—isn't that quirky.
Until it isn't...
What happens when they start selling that data to governments to help target drone strikes?
"""
That mapping effort got a significant boost in 2020, when the app added what it called “Field Research,” a feature prompting players to scan real-world statues and landmarks with their cameras in exchange for in-game rewards.
"""Corporations, dubious ethics, and money always end up in bed together, hate-fucking the 99%.
@cyberlyra https://hachyderm.io/@cyberlyra/116239245187011717
@alice @cyberlyra Or you know, making it so zhat any urban photo can be geolocated in an API call. I'm sure zhat's not going to prove problematic.
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‘Pokémon Go’ players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30 billion images.
The article closes with:
"""
So, next time you see someone in a park trying to “catch ‘em all,” it’s quite possible the data gleaned from that scavenger hunt could play a key role in determining whether the pizzas of the future make it to their destinations on time.
"""Haha, cute. Training pizza delivery robots with crowdsourced data (that players didn't know they were providing)—isn't that quirky.
Until it isn't...
What happens when they start selling that data to governments to help target drone strikes?
"""
That mapping effort got a significant boost in 2020, when the app added what it called “Field Research,” a feature prompting players to scan real-world statues and landmarks with their cameras in exchange for in-game rewards.
"""Corporations, dubious ethics, and money always end up in bed together, hate-fucking the 99%.
@cyberlyra https://hachyderm.io/@cyberlyra/116239245187011717
@alice @cyberlyra not just mapping but provides insight to the human hide&seek mindset as before rubbilizing everything making the dataset moot, the ground attack robots will gladly incorporate all the 'where to best hide' info possible
so it goes humans viscerally need to build lethal robots; needless to say with millions of potential targets freely supplying go! data they'll be ultra-efficient at playing hide&seek. team rocket, charizard & good ole ash : coming soon to a neighborhood near you
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‘Pokémon Go’ players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30 billion images.
The article closes with:
"""
So, next time you see someone in a park trying to “catch ‘em all,” it’s quite possible the data gleaned from that scavenger hunt could play a key role in determining whether the pizzas of the future make it to their destinations on time.
"""Haha, cute. Training pizza delivery robots with crowdsourced data (that players didn't know they were providing)—isn't that quirky.
Until it isn't...
What happens when they start selling that data to governments to help target drone strikes?
"""
That mapping effort got a significant boost in 2020, when the app added what it called “Field Research,” a feature prompting players to scan real-world statues and landmarks with their cameras in exchange for in-game rewards.
"""Corporations, dubious ethics, and money always end up in bed together, hate-fucking the 99%.
@cyberlyra https://hachyderm.io/@cyberlyra/116239245187011717
@alice @cyberlyra grr argh
Kaiju heroes
Yeet them home
To the place
They belong
Cthonic orbits
Meteor craters
Yeet them time
Kaiju heroes -
‘Pokémon Go’ players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30 billion images.
The article closes with:
"""
So, next time you see someone in a park trying to “catch ‘em all,” it’s quite possible the data gleaned from that scavenger hunt could play a key role in determining whether the pizzas of the future make it to their destinations on time.
"""Haha, cute. Training pizza delivery robots with crowdsourced data (that players didn't know they were providing)—isn't that quirky.
Until it isn't...
What happens when they start selling that data to governments to help target drone strikes?
"""
That mapping effort got a significant boost in 2020, when the app added what it called “Field Research,” a feature prompting players to scan real-world statues and landmarks with their cameras in exchange for in-game rewards.
"""Corporations, dubious ethics, and money always end up in bed together, hate-fucking the 99%.
@cyberlyra https://hachyderm.io/@cyberlyra/116239245187011717
@alice @cyberlyra
Not that this makes it ok, but I kinda figured everyone knew that Pokémon Go and its predecessor Ingress were designed for data collection/mapping. -
‘Pokémon Go’ players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30 billion images.
The article closes with:
"""
So, next time you see someone in a park trying to “catch ‘em all,” it’s quite possible the data gleaned from that scavenger hunt could play a key role in determining whether the pizzas of the future make it to their destinations on time.
"""Haha, cute. Training pizza delivery robots with crowdsourced data (that players didn't know they were providing)—isn't that quirky.
Until it isn't...
What happens when they start selling that data to governments to help target drone strikes?
"""
That mapping effort got a significant boost in 2020, when the app added what it called “Field Research,” a feature prompting players to scan real-world statues and landmarks with their cameras in exchange for in-game rewards.
"""Corporations, dubious ethics, and money always end up in bed together, hate-fucking the 99%.
@cyberlyra https://hachyderm.io/@cyberlyra/116239245187011717
I bet every single image from a smart phone had GNSS coordinates included.
A small army of people using a game to conduct geospatial mapping of their area, being sent where needed for more data by the game.
Cross check multiple views of the same area to correct for any systemic errors in individual devices.
Real local knowledge to be used for whatever purpose can be found for it.
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I bet every single image from a smart phone had GNSS coordinates included.
A small army of people using a game to conduct geospatial mapping of their area, being sent where needed for more data by the game.
Cross check multiple views of the same area to correct for any systemic errors in individual devices.
Real local knowledge to be used for whatever purpose can be found for it.
@simonzerafa I wish we could use info like this for good instead of profit.
It's amazing (and amazingly dangerous) data.
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