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

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383 points bookstore-romeo | 2 comments | 19 Nov 24 20:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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ggm ◴[20 Nov 24 23:40 UTC] No.42199341[source]▶
Not wanting to over-do it, but is there possibly an argument the data about geospatial should be in the commons and google have some obligation to put the data back into the commons?

I'm not arguing to a legal basis but if it's crowdsourced, then the inputs came from ordinary people. Sure, they signed to T&Cs.

Philosophically, I think knowledge, facts of the world as it is, even the constructed world, should be public knowledge not an asset class in itself.

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dev1ycan ◴[20 Nov 24 23:49 UTC] No.42199425[source]▶
Do you expect every company to release all their data to the public as well or it's just because you're not invested in this one?
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1. ggm ◴[21 Nov 24 00:00 UTC] No.42199499[source]▶
I expect any company which collates information about geospatial datasets to release the substance of them, yes. Maybe there's an IPR lockup window, but at some point the cadastral facts of the world are part of the commons to me.

I would think there's actually a lot of epidemiology data which also should be winding up in the public domain getting locked up in medical IPR. I could make the same case. Cochrane reports rely on being able to do meta analysis over existing datasets. Thats value.

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2. scottyah ◴[21 Nov 24 00:44 UTC] No.42199849[source]▶
They found a creative way to incentivize the collection of it and paid for the processing. Anybody can collect the same data, I don't see why they would have to release it...

It would be nice of them though.