Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
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Re: Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
#2I stopped scanning pokestops because the effort has outweighed the rewards. A lot of the time, the requests show up as "research tasks" for a point of interest that I quickly passed by and have no interest in returning to, besides the tasks related to taking pictures of your buddy pokemon in augmented reality. Looks like I made the right choice by stopping. They do indicate to you up front that they will use the data, but it's still kind of terrible that you could be indirectly contributing to war efforts. I always assumed the data would be used for large world model training or simulations.
Re: Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
#3Truly dystopian. The Pokémon Company should share the blame for licensing their brand in this way without proper safeguards to prevent the data being used for this, particularly given the background of the Niantic founders
Re: Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
#4Truly dystopian. The Pokémon Company should share the blame for licensing their brand in this way without proper safeguards to prevent the data being used for this, particularly given the background of the Niantic founders
Indeed, but should we always assume data of any type we generate for services can be used for malicious means?
Re: Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
#5Truly dystopian. The Pokémon Company should share the blame for licensing their brand in this way without proper safeguards to prevent the data being used for this, particularly given the background of the Niantic founders
Indeed, but should we always assume data of any type we generate for services can be used for malicious means?
To an extent, but realistically it wasn't really reasonable to expect a cutesy Pokemon game to be used for this ten years later. If you had told the average Pokemon Go player this ten years ago you would have been called crazy. The Pokemon Company should have done more to protect their brand (I would hope for regulation too on player-generated real world data like this)
Re: Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
#6Truly dystopian. The Pokémon Company should share the blame for licensing their brand in this way without proper safeguards to prevent the data being used for this, particularly given the background of the Niantic founders
Maybe Nintendo lawyers could show their skin for a good cause at once.
Re: Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
#7The world is so messed up right now that this is not even the least bit surprising. In fact it's on point.
Re: Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
#8Once the data has trained a model, it also becomes almost impossible to meaningfully audit or undo
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#9Insane.
People literally traded military intelligence for Pokémon.
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#10Truly dystopian. The Pokémon Company should share the blame for licensing their brand in this way without proper safeguards to prevent the data being used for this, particularly given the background of the Niantic founders
Can you imagine scanning your house, your school, your playground, thinking you're catching Pikachu, then have a drone hit it based on your own footage? Pretty terrifying.