Pokémon Go players unwittingly contributed to tech with military drone uses
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一款增强现实手游《宝可梦GO》的玩家在十年间拍摄的数十亿张真实世界图像，已被AI公司Niantic Spatial用于训练导航技术，这些技术可能被应用于配送机器人乃至军用无人机。该公司于2025年5月从游戏开发商Niantic分拆成立，此前曾公开计划利用玩家扫描数据训练“大型地理空间模型”。公司发言人表示，地面扫描数据仅用于训练AI模型，而非直接复制或访问原
A decade after the global craze for Pokémon Go peaked, an AI company has been using billions of real-world images captured by millions of players to develop navigation technologies for delivery robots and possibly military drones. That represents an intriguing but potentially discomfiting legacy for an augmented reality mobile game that has incentivized gamers to capture short smartphone videos of physical neighborhoods and landmarks.
The AI company, Niantic Spatial, was spun out of Pokémon Go game developer Niantic in May 2025, after Niantic separately sold its licensed games such as Pokémon Go to the Saudi-backed video game publisher Scopely. But before that deal, Niantic publicly announced plans to use scans from millions of Pokémon Go players along with data captured by users of the company’s Scaniverse app to train and develop a “large geospatial model”—a 3D model of the physical world trained on the geolocated images provided by app users scanning real-world locations.
“Ground scans were one component to help train Niantic Spatial's real-world foundation models —AI systems that learn to recognize and interpret physical spaces,” a Niantic Spatial spokesperson told Ars. “The models are the product of that training, not a copy of or a means of accessing the underlying scans, which were of public points of interest such as statues and fountains.”
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