This is what’s nice about being a console gamer. TAS already exists. They can’t train anything based on my play except how to do it worse
LogarithmicSphincter on
If the product is free, YOU’RE the actual product
VralGrymfang on
We know the game is designed to help mapping AI.
nakwada on
Wasn’t that already the case with Ingress? It’s developped by the same studio.
TheDukeofArgyll on
Man… remember when we could just use the internet and not have to be conscious of our data being stolen.
Commodus_Wankus on
Until they devise a way to finish my dick when I’m too drunk to continue whackin it, I’m not interested.
N3M3S1S75 on
So will they be compensated for this work?
ningendearukoto on
All those Pokémon go players are going to be regretting it when their online orders are delivered faster and cheaper
g2g079 on
As an Ingress player, we were unknowingly creating Pokemon Go.
i_love_land92 on
There’s a game mode in Battlefield 6 where you delivery “intel drives” to drones that fly away. I joke with my friends that we’re actually just delivering packages for Amazon and this story just confirms my suspicion.
MoreCheddar on
Pretty sure people knew they were training something
chillzwerg on
And before that, the Ingress players helped to make the Pokestops possible…
PKblaze on
I can’t believe the game that maps the world and location data is going to use and sell that data
exactly why I stopped playing as soon as it was purchased by Saudi Arabia
SpaceChef3000 on
Considering how many players complete scan field research tasks by just waving their phone back and forth at the ground wherever they happen to be I don’t have a lot of confidence in these delivery robots.
studliestMuffin on
Ender’s Game
Hot_Calendar_4959 on
Incentivise short travels between point A and B, you can even crowd source most efficient pedestrian routes that algorithms can’t pathfind.
Lupius on
>Niantic trained that VPS model on more than 30 billion images captured by Pokémon Go users, and claims it will help robots operate in areas where GPS falls short.
Wait what? I played this back in the day and don’t recall ever taking pictures for this game.
rokr1292 on
Not the way I play I haven’t
-_-0_0-_0 on
If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product
keithstonee on
That wasn’t obvious when we all were walking around geo tagging points of interest?
Life_Combination8625 on
All they got from me was a lot of footage of my dog walking, peeing or pooping
sephtis on
I hope those robots know how to pay for bus fare.
JasonGroup on
More importantly – the data has undoubtedly been used for targeting systems.
Soulman10 on
I walked through so many people’s yards back in the early craze days lol
MothChasingFlame on
…Which PokeGo player *didn’t* know? It’s been pretty obvious to all of us since day 1 that this is a data mining effort in an Ash Ketchum trenchcoat.
Wooden_Echidna1234 on
Makes sense, Niantic was always focused on getting data over sales and clearly it was much more profitable.
nobadabing on
AFAIK Niantic Spatial was spun off of the part of the company that was not sold to Scopely, no? So do they have any hand in Pokémon Go’s data?
berael on
“Unknowingly”?
Getting users to give you craptons of walking route data was kinda openly the point.
Getting the users to *pay you* for the data they gave you was a pleasant side benefit for the studio.
Kirrawayru on
Stopped playing when i realized that i’d have to spend $ to store a decent amount of pokemon.
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This is what’s nice about being a console gamer. TAS already exists. They can’t train anything based on my play except how to do it worse
If the product is free, YOU’RE the actual product
We know the game is designed to help mapping AI.
Wasn’t that already the case with Ingress? It’s developped by the same studio.
Man… remember when we could just use the internet and not have to be conscious of our data being stolen.
Until they devise a way to finish my dick when I’m too drunk to continue whackin it, I’m not interested.
So will they be compensated for this work?
All those Pokémon go players are going to be regretting it when their online orders are delivered faster and cheaper
As an Ingress player, we were unknowingly creating Pokemon Go.
There’s a game mode in Battlefield 6 where you delivery “intel drives” to drones that fly away. I joke with my friends that we’re actually just delivering packages for Amazon and this story just confirms my suspicion.
Pretty sure people knew they were training something
And before that, the Ingress players helped to make the Pokestops possible…
I can’t believe the game that maps the world and location data is going to use and sell that data
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exactly why I stopped playing as soon as it was purchased by Saudi Arabia
Considering how many players complete scan field research tasks by just waving their phone back and forth at the ground wherever they happen to be I don’t have a lot of confidence in these delivery robots.
Ender’s Game
Incentivise short travels between point A and B, you can even crowd source most efficient pedestrian routes that algorithms can’t pathfind.
>Niantic trained that VPS model on more than 30 billion images captured by Pokémon Go users, and claims it will help robots operate in areas where GPS falls short.
Wait what? I played this back in the day and don’t recall ever taking pictures for this game.
Not the way I play I haven’t
If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product
That wasn’t obvious when we all were walking around geo tagging points of interest?
All they got from me was a lot of footage of my dog walking, peeing or pooping
I hope those robots know how to pay for bus fare.
More importantly – the data has undoubtedly been used for targeting systems.
I walked through so many people’s yards back in the early craze days lol
…Which PokeGo player *didn’t* know? It’s been pretty obvious to all of us since day 1 that this is a data mining effort in an Ash Ketchum trenchcoat.
Makes sense, Niantic was always focused on getting data over sales and clearly it was much more profitable.
AFAIK Niantic Spatial was spun off of the part of the company that was not sold to Scopely, no? So do they have any hand in Pokémon Go’s data?
“Unknowingly”?
Getting users to give you craptons of walking route data was kinda openly the point.
Getting the users to *pay you* for the data they gave you was a pleasant side benefit for the studio.
Stopped playing when i realized that i’d have to spend $ to store a decent amount of pokemon.
uninstalled it when the sau di company bought it