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.
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.
The term "AI Slop" may have jumped the shark.
Never liked Pokemon Go, but I wonder if they are using my old Ingress account.