Hacker News with Generative AI: Pokémon Go

The CIA, NSA, and Pokémon Go (locals.com)
With Pokémon Go currently enjoying, what I would call, a wee-bit-o-success, now seems like a good time to talk about a few things people may not know about the world's favorite new smartphone game.
Government Surveillance, Mobile Gaming, Pokémon Go
6 points by cristaloleg 47 days ago | 0 comments
Pokémon Go Plot to Use Your Data to Fast Track an AI-Slop Google Maps Competitor (jalopnik.com)
Niantic, the privately-held Pokémon Go app parent company, brought the augmented-reality app to the masses in July of 2016, and the game made it onto over a billion phones before 2019.
Pokémon Go, Artificial Intelligence, Google Maps, Gaming
12 points by rntn 56 days ago | 3 comments
Pokémon Go players are altering public map data to catch rare Pokémon (arstechnica.com)
Pokémon Go, Mobile Gaming, Data Manipulation, Augmented Reality, Location-Based Services
79 points by LorenDB 257 days ago | 71 comments