Jeremy Hsu

it's ALL one great big tech grift. good luck. have fun. don't die... "The repurposing of Pokémon Go data for AI training continues to draw scrutiny." (really good report here from @jeremyhsu.bsky.social)👇 arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/p...

Pokémon Go players unwittingly contributed to tech with military drone uses arstechnica.com

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• Over 30 billion player-submitted images reportedly trained Niantic's Visual Positioning System, a camera-based model for navigating without GPS.
• In December 2025, Niantic Spatial partnered with defense contractor Vantor, formerly Maxar Intelligence, targeting GPS-denied drone operations.
• Vantor landed a U.S. Army contract worth up to $217 million in February 2026 for military 3D terrain work.

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While labeling AI content is a good policy for tech firms, it probably won’t save the rest of us who have to deal with its outputs.

Google's SynthID watermark is hard to break, but it doesn't solve AI disinformation arstechnica.com

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• Google says SynthID has now labeled 100 billion images and videos, plus 60,000 years of audio.
• Ordinary edits and noise barely dent the watermark, but running an image back through another AI model breaks the signal.
• OpenAI said in May 2026 it will embed SynthID in all ChatGPT-generated images, joining Nvidia and other adopters.

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