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The Ugly Truth About Pokemon Go...

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Take the quiz at https://go.trainwell.net/YongYea to get matched with your personal trainer and start 14 days free! Pokemon Go was never really a video game. That was always secondary to its primary purpose: data farming. And by using the Pokemon IP and gamifying data collection, they essentially made hundreds of millions of players freely volunteer their work and labor. Pokemon Go players gave away over 30 billion images worth of mapping data and built Niantic's navigation AI for robots without realizing it. 0:00 News 3:08 Sponsor (Trainwell) 4:54 News SOURCES 1: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/10/1134099/how-pokemon-go-is-helping-robots-deliver-pizza-on-time/ 2: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HDfAWo-WcAAztTU?format=jpg&name=large 3: https://www.gamesradar.com/games/pokemon/with-over-30-billion-images-logged-pokemon-go-is-using-players-activity-to-train-its-spinout-ai-company-to-help-gps-pinpointing-im-very-focused-on-trying-to-re-create-the-real-world/ 4: https://www.scopely.com/en/news/scopely-to-acquire-niantic-games-business-which-includes-pokemon-go-one-of-the-most-successful-mobile-games-of-all-time 5: https://x.com/Newsforce/status/2033105934957101136 6: https://x.com/Newsforce/status/2033105934957101136/quotes 7: https://x.com/markgadala/status/2033230495283351624 8: https://x.com/markgadala/status/2033230495283351624/quotes 9: https://x.com/Dexerto/status/2033286300216738240 10: https://www.dexerto.com/pokemon/pikachu-just-helped-deliver-your-pizza-pokemon-go-data-is-now-guiding-food-delivery-robots-3335459/ 11: https://x.com/Dexerto/status/2033286300216738240/quotes 12: https://x.com/Dexerto/status/2033286300216738240