Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World (www.404media.co)
from sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to technology@beehaw.org on 21 Nov 08:02
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It’s always about the data.

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PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk on 21 Nov 09:23 next collapse

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.

RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 22 Nov 07:02 collapse

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.

PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk on 22 Nov 07:12 collapse

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.

RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 22 Nov 07:19 collapse

I got sick of being careful and definitely got banned, but it wasn’t hard to fake well as long as you are patient

PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk on 22 Nov 07:24 collapse

Yeah, a bit of sense is all you need. I’ve not used spoofing tools but a few of my friends have - we live rural too and it revolutionises the game. Even our local small city centre isn’t really raid friendly - it’s not like you can hang a out Times Square and literally walk into a full raid whenever you like.

That said, the weekly Pokémon Club in rural areas is a great social, and mons tend to stay in gyms for more than twelve seconds making it a bit easier to get pokecoins. The game is still heavily skewed towards city centres though.

MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub on 21 Nov 11:11 next collapse

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

[deleted] on 21 Nov 11:28 next collapse

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TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip on 21 Nov 13:55 next collapse

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

SteevyT@beehaw.org on 21 Nov 14:57 collapse

StUnt jUMP FaiLeD

SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net on 21 Nov 19:23 next collapse

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!

SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de on 22 Nov 08:12 collapse

Tesla will buy them next week

Phen@lemmy.eco.br on 21 Nov 11:23 next collapse

Niantic always announced itself as a data company.

Kolanaki@yiffit.net on 21 Nov 14:17 next collapse

Gonna end up having GPS telling me to drive into someone’s backyard because Pokemon Go put a Charizard in there.

todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee on 21 Nov 15:53 next collapse

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

slurpeesoforion@startrek.website on 21 Nov 11:40 collapse

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

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social on 22 Nov 06:43 collapse

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

Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org on 22 Nov 08:53 collapse

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?)