alt Hacker News> I have been tricked into working to contribute training data so that they can profit off my labor
You were playing a game without paying for it. How did you imagine they were making money without pimping your data?
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mgiampapa • 11/21/2024
Lots of people are spending a lot of money on in app purchases in these games already.
yreg • 11/21/2024
In this case it's the other way around. Pokemon Go is profitable and funds the rest of Niantic, this AI innitiative included (for now).
(I'm not saying that they shouldn't use the game data for training.)
itpcc • 11/21/2024
> You were playing a game without paying for it.
I CALL BS. We paid ALL THE TIME! We pay even item's capacity so much they need to increase the limit recently[1].
Ref:
[1] https://www.facebook.com/PokemonGO/posts/1102918761192160
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Niantic made 700 million dollars last year, mostly selling virtual game items.