‘Pokémon Go’ players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30 billion images
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The massive crowdsourcing effort could use real-world to help robots deliver pizza.

The massive crowdsourcing effort could use real-world to help robots deliver pizza.

  • WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    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.

    • Pickleideas@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      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

    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Unless you are a time traveler you had no way to know your data will be used this way in the future. The deal was only signed on March 10ht 2026.