"Niantic, the company behind the extremely popular augmented reality mobile games Pokémon Go and Ingress, announced that it is using data collected by its millions of players to create an AI model that can navigate the physical world" (and power robots)
https://www.404media.co/pokemon-go-players-have-unwittingly-trained-ai-to-navigate-the-world/
@alshafei this isn't really surprising - niantic was always, pretty transparently, using games as a way to collect geographic data.
Pokemon: heist
@alshafei Harvesting that much data when they're adults is fucking gross.
Harvesting that much data that also involves A LOT of children is appalling in ways I can't describe.