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Ten years ago, Cambridge Analytica used data from Facebook games to tweak UK and US voters and torque world geopolitics.
Today we find out that the company behind Pokémon Go used all your data finding Pikachus to teach autonomous robots how to navigate and take away your jobs.
https://www.popsci.com/technology/pokemon-go-delivery-robots-crowdsourcing/
@connected Zero. Unless you count the people who clicked through when they said they were changing their terms of service retroactively.
@cyberlyra you know I'm always a little amazed that folks in Comps I defend this sort of thing.
But then some folks do work for data brokers. Data collected for an initial context can leak, be stolen or be sold on. It's still collected, it's still useful.
@cyberlyra that's unbelievable, how come I never heard it
@cyberlyra Of course. Everything is for sale. This probably isn't an exclusive deal, the data is probably also sold to mapping companies, car companies, defense. Google and Apple are some of the largest ad companies in the world and they get access to your location data 24/7. The only winning move is to not play at all.
@cyberlyra And in ten years we will discover that the so called AI... Oh wait, that's already well known.
Times have changed, you can't set up a sloppy evil plan that it's already ruined the fun.
@cyberlyra I'm sure it's more than that, but yeah.
@cyberlyra yet another sign the apocalypse is upon us. why? before they rubbilize everything making the dataset moot, the terminator robots will gladly incorporate the 'where to best hide' info gathered during the seeking segment of the game
so it goes humans viscerally need to build lethal robots needless to say with millions of potential targets freely supplying data they'll be ultra-efficient at playing hide&seek. ash and team rocket: coming soon to a neighborhood near you.
@cyberlyra @blogdiva Yeah, and ingress before that. (It’s the same game, basically.)
@cyberlyra I feel like that’s a pretty dramatic comparison to draw… Cambridge Analytica was electioneering to undermine democracy. Not having to be a pizza delivery driver is a very different class of outcome 🙄 This just seems like a clever use of gamification to improve models, more akin to Alpha Fold than Cambridge Analytica
@cyberlyra This is sad. I mean, I know it was happening. I was going to pass this article along to my son to warn him but geez, he knows the world sucks, why ruin this tiny bit of joy for him? Nothing is fun anymore. Everything is a monetization of a privacy invasion.
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