Comment on ‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robots
demlet@lemmy.world 4 days agoI played Ingress a little bit before Pokemon Go came out, enough to recognize all the same physical locations were being re-used. I found it kind of uncanny for some reason.
SalmiakDragon@feddit.nu 4 days ago
What? Why wouldn’t they use the data they already have? The only way you would find that uncanny is if you assumed that data submitted to a company in one context is never re-used outside that context. No such promise was ever made; On the contrary, I seem to recall that we were told from the start that model building was the goal.
Niantic has pulled sheisty moves, but this isn’t one of them.
demlet@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Oh yeah, I know that. It was more just a weird feeling that I find it hard to describe. Like, it felt like I was existing within multiple different realities at the same time for a brief moment. Just my imagination getting carried away, like how familiar objects can look like monsters in the dark, even though we know perfectly well what they really are.