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Niantic announces “Large Geospatial Model” trained on Pokémon Go player data

(nianticlabs.com)

383 points bookstore-romeo | 3 comments | 19 Nov 24 20:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.738s | source

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janice1999 ◴[20 Nov 24 21:58 UTC] No.42198544[source]▶

>>42187494 (OP) #

I'm sure the CIA already has access. [1] People were raising privacy concerns years ago. [2]

[1] https://www.networkworld.com/article/953621/the-cia-nsa-and-...

[2] https://kotaku.com/the-creators-of-pokemon-go-mapped-the-wor...

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1. dgfitz ◴[20 Nov 24 22:14 UTC] No.42198676[source]▶

Google maps has more data than PGO could ever hope to have.

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2. esafak ◴[21 Nov 24 04:00 UTC] No.42200961[source]▶

>>42198676 (TP) #

But you only use Maps when you need directions.

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3. dgfitz ◴[21 Nov 24 05:12 UTC] No.42201339[source]▶

I don’t think this is sarcasm.

Until pretty recently, phone telemetry data was a free-for-all, and if you’re, say, in legal trouble, a map of the location of your phone over the past… however long you’ve had your phone is immediately available.