THE BIGGEST DATA HEIST IN HISTORY IS CALLED POKÉMON GO.
For 8 years, 143 million people walked the streets to catch a Charizard.
The reality? They were working for free.
Niantic just admitted that players' cameras scanned parks, storefronts, and sidewalks around the world from every angle.
The loot? A visual database of 30 BILLION real images.
It wasn't a game. It was the secret construction of the world's largest AI dataset.
Today, Niantic uses your Sunday strolls to sell visual navigation systems to delivery robots (without GPS).
No company, not even Google, could have paid a fleet of vehicles to do that.
You thought you were playing a video game; you were the volunteer subcontractor for global robotics.
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