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How Pokémon Go players unknowingly trained military drones: ‘I was just playing a game’ (www.trouw.nl)
submitted 16 hours ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1185607/how-pokemon-go-players-unknowingly-trained-military-drones-i-was-just-playing-a-game

Players of the game Pokémon Go scanned their environment for years for extra points. With the help of these billions of scans, an extremely precise navigation system has now been developed for military drones and robots, among others.

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[–] metermatic26@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Offcourse it had to be the Dutch: one of the most apolitical and naive peoples of Europe.

[–] PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 minutes ago

Just because the reporting is in Dutch doesn't mean only Dutch naively contributed to the database. It seems individuals all over the globe, having interacted with this in-game mechanic, have done so. But generally speaking, as a Dutch person myself, I cannot really argue with the rest of the comment haha...