Sentiment here is blowing this waaay out of proportion. It's not new technology, and its not particularly scary or dystopian.
Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
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#102I worked at a VPS competitor of niantic. I am conflicted on this report. 1) VPS is not new, the startup I worked at had a working public system in 2018. 2) The hard part about VPSs is not actually the navigation, its generating and querying the map. How does the VPS work? You build a point cloud of features (for us we paid people to go and record videos in cities, Tesla/Waymo/toyata/google drove cars niantic got it's…
(Visual Positioning System)
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#103If you are looking for something to channel that energy into, you could help improve open street map using streetcomplete: https://streetcomplete.app/
Surely military drones will use OpenStreetMap data? Even the Russians and Iranians can use it for whatever purpose they like.
Yes. Just like editing wikipedia will help train models that are used for data classification in north korea or whatever.
It's a feature of open data, it's open and usable by anyone.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is revolting. Given how many kids played and are still playing the game this literally means weaponizing kids playing games. Humanity has been lost somewhere along the way.
Humanity hasn’t been lost, it’s been conquered. Enter AI, a new era of soulless wonder. Intelligentia Artificiosa. Ingenium Artificum. — Dreams of Silicon and Sorrow
What's the AI component here? Pokemon Go dates back to 2016, and there was Ingress before that. Hell, there was Foursquare before Ingress. Strava/similar has leaked military bases' layouts. All of that predates ChatGPT.
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#105This is one of the most dystopian things I've heard in a long while.
I mean, we have a lot of weird shit going down right now... like AI being used to automate art BEFORE it's being used to automate dangerous and menial jobs, but knowing that people are being killed with help from data generated by millions of kids and young adults playing a fun, cute videogame is just so freaking dark and weird.
We are a very strange species and I don't have a great deal of hope for our future.
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#106> Hanke formed Niantic Labs inside Google in 2010, then spun it out in 2015. Spyware company spawns a new spyware company.
Spyware Mitosis?
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#107Kids training drones that will kill other kids. There is a level of evilness on that difficult to grasp. What kind of society puts that burthen on their own children? Inequality has given power to the few deranged and depraved. No ethics, no morality, just self gratification and excess.
Or maybe kill themselves, since most scans are from the cities they live in.
Re: Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
#108If you are looking for something to channel that energy into, you could help improve open street map using streetcomplete: https://streetcomplete.app/
Yes, there other mobile editor that are arguably more featured (EveryDoor, OSM Go, OsmAnd), but StreetComplete has a nice gamification / simplification of UI that makes editing a breeze. MapComplete is a nice alternative if you care about some part of the map that are not easily filterable by StreetComplet https://mapcomplete.org/
StreetComplete is a top app.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Humanity hasn’t been lost, it’s been conquered. Enter AI, a new era of soulless wonder. Intelligentia Artificiosa. Ingenium Artificum. — Dreams of Silicon and Sorrow
What's the AI component here? Pokemon Go dates back to 2016, and there was Ingress before that. Hell, there was Foursquare before Ingress. Strava/similar has leaked military bases' layouts. All of that predates ChatGPT.
Ingress still exists and has a similar scanning mechanism.
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's quite obvious that data is what pays the game. A lot of data about the players )daily routine, commute to work/school, social circles to other players, etc. which allows to derive Job, wealth, etc.), data about surroundings (where do people actually walk, drive, ... etc.) The story here however I'm not too sure about: Isn't the game mostly played in dense urban areas? - by the time you need military drones there…
> While the technology certainly is dual use. It's dual, but its positive aspects are only unlocked after a sufficient human blood sacrifice is made by its overlords, as is the case with all dual use tech.
No it's not. How does 3D printing; what blood sacrifice happened with 3d printers before they were unleashed upon the world? Hard to prove for encryption, though that one's antediluvian. Drones were around and toys for quite a while before they ever killed anyone.