'Pokémon Go' players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30B images
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Re: 'Pokémon Go' players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30B images
#2Stalking as a service - upload a photo of your target and get back gps coordinates, coming soon!
Re: 'Pokémon Go' players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30B images
#3Stalking as a service - upload a photo of your target and get back gps coordinates, coming soon!
Let's turn it into a gig app.
PIs need to live in the future too.
Swipe left/right if you want to take the job.
Re: 'Pokémon Go' players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30B images
#4I wouldn't say "unknowingly" since stories like [0] have been posted for years/decades and people were given "free" internet (data) to play the game [1] . It's more that people just didn't give a shit.
I'm sure there are new details about the usecases for the data, but not that data was collected unknowingly
[0] https://auth0.com/blog/2016/07/11/pokemon-go-catches-all-you... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12075477
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2016/7/14/12192752/t-mobile-pokemon... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12099159
Re: 'Pokémon Go' players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30B images
#5Stalking as a service - upload a photo of your target and get back gps coordinates, coming soon!
I've seen at least a couple of services that promise to do just that come through this site.
Some people think these just pass the info through to an LLM to ask it "where was this image taken" which reminds me a little of when the police ask psychics for help.
Re: 'Pokémon Go' players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30B images
#6Despite the lack of transparency, is this so bad?
Players are being given a game in exchange for collectively building a database.
Re: 'Pokémon Go' players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30B images
#7I like Pokemon Go and play almost every day. I did this scan one time and then stopped. The rewards are not worth the hassle. I don't think many players are doing it. It's just very weird to stand somewhere and scan an object.
I also wouldn't say 'unknowingly trained', it's pretty obvious what it does, and I think the game even tells you that they want to understands how the POI looks like in 3D.
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#9Despite the lack of transparency, is this so bad? Players are being given a game in exchange for collectively building a database.
It's the lack of transparency that is bad. PokemonGo did not make it clear it was taking (and uploading) pictures.
You could argue that "of course it must be for AR", but that isn't clear at all. The camera shows a live image before I take a photo, and I wouldn't expect a photo to be captured and sent if I didn't press the (virtual) shutter.
There are probably some cheap phones that do precisely that, and I'd be just as annoyed at them and raise the same concerns.
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#10> The massive crowdsourcing effort could use real-world to help robots deliver pizza.
Huh? Does popsci not have copy editors?