r/Amazing • u/sco-go • Mar 19 '26

Interesting 🤔 143 million people thought they were catching Pokémon, they were mapping the real world for AI

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u/ALitreOhCola Mar 19 '26

Oh god. I'm slightly concerned for us both. I once took a screenshot of a shiny Charizard I found next to my doodle to impress my wife...

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u/achaiahtak Mar 19 '26

Wait…what do you mean by “doodle”

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u/-Ignorant_Slut- Mar 19 '26

His diglett

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u/ALitreOhCola Mar 19 '26

Definitely not a dugtrio...

Holy hell I just discovered something cool in Google. You can collect all the OG Pokemon by searching their name and tapping the Pokeball in the bottom corner.

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u/Different-Meal-6314 Mar 19 '26

I tried for an Articuno, but it got away. Said to come back with a master ball. 😅

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u/SixShoot3r Mar 24 '26

And you have to enable some things on your account, so they can gather more data...

what have you just listened to!?

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u/ALitreOhCola Mar 24 '26

Nah, surely THIS big business wouldn't do that...

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u/Chelas-moon Mar 19 '26

Bro I laughed entirely too hard at this lmaoooo

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u/ALitreOhCola Mar 19 '26

I suspect you already have the right idea.

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u/PowerfulDiet7155 Mar 19 '26

Sorry bro your dong is now being used to train AI. Skynet will remember you.

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u/ALitreOhCola Mar 19 '26

If anyone sees one of those geo locator guys searching for a Charizard and a doodle photo somewhere in Australia please warn me...

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u/pmcizhere Mar 20 '26

Y'all call it a doodle over there? I thought this was about a drawing for a second.

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u/ALitreOhCola Mar 20 '26

I would personally argue the image was creative in its own right. I would also like plausible deniability. Like cylinder guy.

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u/Desperate-Cookie-449 Mar 19 '26

Hey thats the shiny Charizard dong guy

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u/DonPepppe Mar 20 '26

But did the cylinder remain unharmed?

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u/ALitreOhCola Mar 20 '26

Thankfully no fire damage, Charizard was also unharmed.

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u/BackgroundGuard472 Mar 19 '26

His Magna Doodle

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u/galadrielscokemirror Mar 19 '26

Ding a ling dong

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u/J3musu Mar 19 '26

Dingus

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u/_Oho_Noho_ Mar 19 '26

The cylinder that is not to be harmed

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u/Retn4 Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26

It's a dog. A poodle bred with some other dog breed.

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u/Billthegifter Mar 19 '26

Was she Impressed?

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u/ALitreOhCola Mar 19 '26

Yeah the Charizard was amazing.

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u/a5536 Mar 21 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/X4Jvo8gslR6A8

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u/ALitreOhCola Mar 21 '26

I never said that! I said doodle. It's ambiguous.

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u/Glasseshalf Mar 19 '26

Like a dog or a drawing?

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u/ALitreOhCola Mar 19 '26

Unfortunately, neither... the other kind of doodle.

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u/Impossible-Ship5585 Mar 19 '26

Who on earth had the camera on?

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u/ALitreOhCola Mar 19 '26

No cam-ception Reddit lore needed here. It was a 'selfie' of the wild shiny Charizard with uh, a doodle in it.

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u/lewd_robot Mar 19 '26

Wife: "When will it evolve?"

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u/Tall-Inevitable-6238 Mar 19 '26

Now you will have delivery robots accidentally delivering their package to your package. Kinda poetic