Submitted 4 hours ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.popsci.com/technology/pokemon-go-delivery-robots-crowdsourcing/
The massive crowdsourcing effort could use real-world to help robots deliver pizza.
I wouldn’t say unknowingly. When this thing started years ago as “Ingress” they were fairly open about how the data it collected will be helping all kinds of technology learning while you play. I loved playing Ingress, but never did try Pokemon.
I played Ingress a little bit before Pokemon Go came out, enough to recognize all the same physical locations were being re-used. I found it kind of uncanny for some reason.
I was thinking the same thing “whether they knew it or not” is disingenuous. 3d scanning was an opt-in feature they specifically said they’d be using to add real world objects to their database
I hope they don’t turn our Pokémon Go to the Polls data to use for voter suppression purposes
Never played Pokémon Go. Ironically tried out Ingress for about a week as a novelty. Probably contributing to this nightmare anyway by improving OpenStreetMap.
I will never, having seen the gameplay loop, understand Pokémon Go; I do basically the same thing while surveying, but the key difference is what I’m focused on. My hobby is also a never-ending grind with threadbare social interaction where everything I do is tracked, but everyone gets the data, and I get to pay attention to real, interesting things instead of what the dopamine slot machine says I get to have today.
Suckers!
inari@piefed.zip 4 hours ago
And feeding data to government agencies, no doubt
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
It’s only a matter of time, and money.