This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
This is a reason why you should actually read the Terms of Service and don't use the product if you don't agree with them. Niantic's ability to use your images like this would have been in the ToS.
AI has made this a bit easier since you can copy and paste the ToS into an LLM and ask it summarize the terms and point out the most important clauses (and clauses that aren't typical)
I used the AI to destroy the AI
I don't automatically have a negative opinion about this, I would need more information before that. Did the terms of service allow for this?
It's a fascinating case study on crowdsourcing data that is useful to this navigation technology, and reminds me of the first captchas that helped train OCR engines.
Yeah this is like 90% of all of Google's business model. Captchas to train OCR or tag crosswalks, vehicles, etc. for other computer vision. GOOG-411 to train voice recognition for the Google assistant.
Google voice only makes sense as a data play too, for voicemail data, etc.
YouTube is a massive dataset. Part of their recent crackdowns on downloading tools and 3rd party apps is around keeping that data for themselves.
