1. Holy crap im early. 2. Yes, im sure we all know that WE are the products. 3. I never played Pokémon Go. I always thought it was fishy. Glad to see I was right.
I've had all of the camera features disabled on Pokemon Go from day one but I wouldn't be surprised if it was still running in the background somehow. Absolutely wild though and yet somehow unsurprising
I turn off AR feature and when doing the buddy picture and hand goes over the camera. Also I ignore the 'photograph a poke stop' challenge that forever sits in the challenge list.
Yeah, a delivery bot. At least, that's what they're willing to admit they use the data for, but let's be real, corporate entities aren't known for honesty, especially ones who work with AI.
That was really brilliant. But it would have been nice if they'd just told people that. Most people would probably have been fine. But not knowing it sounds pretty manipulative.
did people really not realize this is what they were going to do??? its horrifying to see rampant lack of reasoning, theres no good reason they have to ask for you to scan an area with your camera while prescise gps is being used
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so all those times i was scanning pokestops i was basically training robots? my life is a lie 😭
At this point I'm not even mad bro. Lowkey clever
Damn I wonder when this happe- TWO MINUTES.
This is the real time we use ai for real stuff like summarising terms and conditions.
1. Holy crap im early.
2. Yes, im sure we all know that WE are the products.
3. I never played Pokémon Go. I always thought it was fishy. Glad to see I was right.
is there gonna be another way to get meltan i love meltan
Knew it was too good to be true…
To the people going like "all my hard work wasted" or whatever
If you didnt scan a pokestop (or if you didnt use AR at all like a normal human 💀) or spoofed, you unironically helped kinda
Didn't they also use it to train maps and GPS…?
……why did get a "6-7" animation for being the 67th like….
And the cia with the dhs also had their hands in the data cookie jar 😊
Trust me, Pokemon Go is NOT free.
I always thought as a kid it was weird that the ar camera kept turning itself on every time I opened the app. Makes sense now that I look back
Alright now what if I walk into a building 500 times
This isn't even that bad considering the other things going on
Suspected this from day one and even though i've used the app, I rarely used the camera based features.
This is "exposed" every few months, and always ignores that most players don't even use the AR features, esp scanning.
Isnt most of this opt in for people? And gets “exposed” every few months
I've had all of the camera features disabled on Pokemon Go from day one but I wouldn't be surprised if it was still running in the background somehow. Absolutely wild though and yet somehow unsurprising
I turn off AR feature and when doing the buddy picture and hand goes over the camera. Also I ignore the 'photograph a poke stop' challenge that forever sits in the challenge list.
it's a pizza bot *for now*. the next step is police bots and military drones.
Yeah, a delivery bot. At least, that's what they're willing to admit they use the data for, but let's be real, corporate entities aren't known for honesty, especially ones who work with AI.
Now you know why China banned Pokémon Go right after its launch.
The scanning PokeStops sounded sus to me when it was first implemented. Glad I just deleted those Field Researches.
That was really brilliant. But it would have been nice if they'd just told people that. Most people would probably have been fine. But not knowing it sounds pretty manipulative.
how do people not realize when a product is “free”, that you are what they are profiting off
did people really not realize this is what they were going to do??? its horrifying to see rampant lack of reasoning, theres no good reason they have to ask for you to scan an area with your camera while prescise gps is being used
Pokemon go was green oped by the CIA, it's been pretty sus for a while.
I wish those who spent money could get it back x10 as shareholders for this-
I mean, we all knew they were watching our photos and videos. The differnece is that now we know FOR WHAT