I used to play this game!
The company behind Pokemon Go has announced it is using data collected by its millions of players to build an AI model that can navigate the real world, and could be used for robots. Doubt Pokemon Go players anticipated this
https://www.404media.co/pokemon-go-players-have-unwittingly-trained-ai-to-navigate-the-world/
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Thank you for your contribution of teaching AI how to navigate! I played it for a couple months when it first game out as well. Not surprised what they doing with the data though.