Pokémon Go Plot to Use Your Data to Fast Track an AI-Slop Google Maps Competitor

(jalopnik.com)
11 points rntn | 5 comments | 22 Nov 24 21:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.608s | source
1. saomcomrad56 ◴[22 Nov 24 21:10 UTC] No.42217403[source]▶
Never liked Pokemon Go, but I wonder if they are using my old Ingress account.
2. ◴[22 Nov 24 21:15 UTC] No.42217422[source]▶
3. minimaxir ◴[22 Nov 24 21:15 UTC] No.42217426[source]▶
The term "AI Slop" may have jumped the shark.
4. gkoberger ◴[22 Nov 24 21:16 UTC] No.42217432[source]▶
I think the title doesn't really match the article, and is very click-baity.

It's fine to not like Niantic using your data (although they've been doing this even pre-AI, of course).

But nothing in the article implies they're building a Google Maps competitor, but rather that they're licensing a data set of the images and other geospatial data they've collected.