the same budget
How much did this it cost to collect all this data?
What cost? The data collectors paid us!
This is - unfortunately - not surprising. Niantic has always been in the business of selling/using user data for profit, they were a spin-off from Google after all. Their first big game, Ingress, was used to train Google Maps.
Just like recaptchas training OCR
And self driving cars
And this is why you dont take AR scans of pokestops/use ar mode. The free $1 poffin isnt worth the betrayal of the area.
Goofy.
Hey! Whoa! That’s uncalled for!
…Goofy isn’t even a Pokemon.
Unknowingly?
Ingress was quite transparent about the goal of gathering real-world data to allows development of future technologies like self-driving and navigation.
It’s the reason, why I started playing it around 2012.
Most people just want to collect Pokemon and don’t read up on what the company that made the app is doing.
Yeah I’m perfectly fine telling Big Data that where I walk is a walkable path or that the PoIs I pass exist there. There are just as many positive uses of that info as negative.
Not even the first alarming issue with Pokemon Go
This is a reason why you should actually read the Terms of Service and don’t use the product if you don’t agree with them. Niantic’s ability to use your images like this would have been in the ToS.
AI has made this a bit easier since you can copy and paste the ToS into an LLM and ask it summarize the terms and point out the most important clauses (and clauses that aren’t typical)
I don’t automatically have a negative opinion about this, I would need more information before that. Did the terms of service allow for this?
It’s a fascinating case study on crowdsourcing data that is useful to this navigation technology, and reminds me of the first captchas that helped train OCR engines.
Yeah this is like 90% of all of Google’s business model. Captchas to train OCR or tag crosswalks, vehicles, etc. for other computer vision. GOOG-411 to train voice recognition for the Google assistant.
Google voice only makes sense as a data play too, for voicemail data, etc.
YouTube is a massive dataset. Part of their recent crackdowns on downloading tools and 3rd party apps is around keeping that data for themselves.
Nothing is free and everything will be stored.
AI already knows who you are online only the few can see those results but you bet your ass they are making machine generated profiles of you to sell ads.
Ephemeral communication is only way forward.
Niantic is a google company
