Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World
Niantic says it is using data generated by Pokémon Go players to create a “Large Geospatial Model” that can navigate the real world and power robots.
like animals that unknowingly spread the seeds of weeds
And none of this crowdsourced data will be available to the public (e.g. for use in Free Software projects), despite the public having created it. It will only ever be used to oppress us, not empower us to resist oppression.