Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones

Just wonderful.

> The games went to a Saudi sovereign wealth fund. The map went to defense.

The map went to offense. Nobody needs scans of someone else's country for "defense".

At this point it's a given that any data source that can bring an edge in a conflict is being used for exactly that. Things that film and scan surroundings are the newest addition. When a fleet of cars is taking cm or mm resolution scans of entire cities or even countries the safe assumption is that the data is funneled for intelligence and military purposes.

You should assume any camera recording will turn into a model one way or another, if not for gnss denied navigation, it will be on facial recognition or such.

Niantics founder has CIA roots... None of this is surprising.

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/302386307352562

Insane.

People literally traded military intelligence for Pokémon.

"Gotta... Kill em all?"

everything sucks :(

This 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.

upon seeing the title i was only wondering - whose drones.

Hate to say I called this years ago....

It is a shameful use of tech.

To those who were playing Pokemon Go ten years ago.

Thanks for playing. (You got played)

"If something is free, you are the product."

Funny how "conspiracy theorists" were once again right

Sentiment here is blowing this waaay out of proportion. It's not new technology, and its not particularly scary or dystopian.

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