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

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" Pokémon Go " players have been training an artificial intelligence ( AI ) model to map the planet at street level.

Niantic, the company behind the popular game, has revealed that it will use data scraped from its apps to construct a "large geospatial model" The company has drawn data from more than 10 million scanned locations worldwide, with users adding 1 million more new scans each week .