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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.


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.
Same with AI