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‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robots (www.popsci.com)

submitted 7 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Anaeijon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] SippyCup@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

Most people just want to collect Pokemon and don't read up on what the company that made the app is doing.

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[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

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.

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