Never liked Pokemon Go, but I wonder if they are using my old Ingress account.

The term "AI Slop" may have jumped the shark.

I think the title doesn't really match the article, and is very click-baity.

It's fine to not like Niantic using your data (although they've been doing this even pre-AI, of course).

But nothing in the article implies they're building a Google Maps competitor, but rather that they're licensing a data set of the images and other geospatial data they've collected.