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Gotta Catch 'Em All: How Pokémon Go covertly captured your data for years to train a massive AI model


Niantic, the company behind Pokémon Go, has been scraping users’ scans of the world to build a model that will help robots navigate physical space. Some experts are worried about the potential applications.

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