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How Pokémon Go players unknowingly trained military drones: ‘I was just playing a game’ (www.trouw.nl)
submitted 15 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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[–] arcine@jlai.lu 16 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

To be fair, the only reason having a detailed scan of the world is a bad thing is because we live in a fucked up world.

[–] JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Same with AI

[–] EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world 37 points 14 hours ago

Pokémon Go’s parent company, Niatic received money from the CIA’s In-Q-Tel investment subsidiary. The Israeli military banned the game on bases when it was released. It was always a security hazard. Now it’s too late to do anything about it.

[–] metermatic26@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 18 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Another reason games need to be open source! 🫤

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

I don't think that would change anything. The valuable part is the collected data. Even if the way that data is collected is open source or even if the data itself is open source, the issue is misusing that data.

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 11 points 13 hours ago

Ahh, so now they can more easily identify which schools to bomb.