Pokémon Go Players Unknowingly Trained Delivery Robots With 30 Billion Images

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A Popular Science investigation (154 upvotes, r/artificial) revealed Pokémon Go's AR scanning feature collected 30 billion images that trained Uber Eats and other delivery robots for navigation and obstacle avoidance — without players' explicit knowledge of the commercial training use. This is the largest documented case of gamified crowdsourced AI training data collection, raising questions about consent frameworks when consumer app behavior feeds commercial AI systems. The scale (30B images from a single mobile game) dwarfs most deliberate data collection efforts.