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

This is pretty cool, but I feel as a pokehunter (Pokemon Go player), I have been tricked into working to contribute training data so that they can profit off my labor. How? They consistently incentivize you to scan pokestops (physical locations) through "research tasks" and give you some useful items as rewards. The effort is usually much more significant than what you get in return, so I have stopped doing it. It's not very convenient to take a video around the object or location in question. If they release the model and weights, though, I will feel I contributed to the greater good.

You've also been tricked into making your comment, which will undoubtedly be fed into an LLM's training corpus, and someone will be profiting off that, along with my comment as well. What a future we live in!

I don't understand this perspective. Why should I resent the creation of value from behaviours that I would be doing anyway.

You're mislabeling rent-seeking as value creation. Perhaps this is the root of your misunderstanding?

Not really, you're assuming that your independent actions or forum comments have intrinsic value. They do not.

then there's no need for the AI parasites to train on them