{"id":112272,"date":"2026-08-19T00:38:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T00:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youzum.net\/the-download-how-people-really-use-ai-and-flocks-design-choices\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T00:38:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T00:38:24","slug":"the-download-how-people-really-use-ai-and-flocks-design-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youzum.net\/th\/the-download-how-people-really-use-ai-and-flocks-design-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"The Download: how people really use AI, and Flock\u2019s design choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is today\u2019s edition of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.technologyreview.com\/newsletters\/briefing-the-download\/?_ga=2.179569122.736533416.1649661040-405833893.1649413289\"><em>The Download<\/em><\/a>, <em>our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what\u2019s going on in the world of technology.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">We still don\u2019t know how people are really using AI<strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using their products. But they only release the data they want us to see, AI researchers say, and there\u2019s no independent source to corroborate it.<\/p>\n<p>A new research project called the AI Observatory aims to fill in the gap. Its analysis shows many more sensitive behaviors than are captured in reports from major AI companies, which focus more on work than on personal use.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers also found significant differences between models. People were more likely to turn to Anthropic for coding, Gemini for social and roleplay uses, and ChatGPT for homework assistance. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2026\/08\/18\/1142226\/how-people-use-ai\/?utm_source=the_download&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&amp;utm_term=*%7CSUBCLASS%7C*&amp;utm_content=*%7CDATE:m-d-Y%7C*\">Here\u2019s what the AI Observatory reveals about how people use AI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Eileen Guo<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Flock\u2019s defenders are missing<strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Flock Safety, the police-tech giant known for its network of some 120,000 automatic license plate readers around the US, recently announced changes to its platform. The updates are meant to prevent officers from using it for illegal or illegitimate purposes, including stalking.<\/p>\n<p>Amid all this, there have recently been several arguments defending Flock: If these cameras help solve crime, is it as big a deal? On a good day they might help catch a kidnapper, and if not, they\u2019re simply snapping pictures of my car that nobody will bother to look at.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But this all skips over a more important question: What kind of crime-fighting system has Flock chosen to build? Its network works the way it does because of decisions about what information to collect, who can search it, how long to keep it, and how widely to share it. Those decisions set the terms of the bargain between security and civil liberties.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2026\/08\/17\/1142200\/what-flocks-defenders-are-missing\/?utm_source=the_download&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&amp;utm_term=*%7CSUBCLASS%7C*&amp;utm_content=*%7CDATE:m-d-Y%7C*\">Find out what a narrower Flock system could look like<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014James O\u2019Donnell<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>This <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2026\/08\/17\/1142200\/what-flocks-defenders-are-missing\/?utm_source=the_download&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&amp;utm_term=*%7CSUBCLASS%7C*&amp;utm_content=*%7CDATE:m-d-Y%7C*\"><strong>story<\/strong><\/a><strong> is from The Algorithm, our weekly AI newsletter. <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.technologyreview.com\/newsletters\/ai-demystified-the-algorithm\/?utm_source=the_download&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&amp;utm_term=*%7CSUBCLASS%7C*&amp;utm_content=*%7CDATE:m-d-Y%7C*\"><strong>Sign up <\/strong><\/a><strong>to receive it in your inbox every Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>The must-reads<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019ve combed the internet to find you today\u2019s most fun\/important\/scary\/fascinating stories about technology.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>1 A child privacy trial starting today could change Meta forever<\/strong><br \/>More than half of the states in the US have joined the lawsuit. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/08\/17\/meta-attorneys-general-california-federal-trial-astronomical-consequences.html\">CNBC<\/a>)<br \/><em>+ They say Meta\u00a0deliberately designed addictive social networks.<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/aug\/18\/meta-child-safety-addiction-lawsuit-states\">Guardian<\/a>)<br \/>+ <em>And want changes including ending \u201clike\u201d counts and infinite scroll. <\/em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/clyqpx6xk69o\">BBC<\/a>)<br \/><em>+ Four of them are demanding $1.4 trillion in damages.<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2026\/08\/17\/meta-faces-federal-trial-demanding-14-trillion-alleged-teen-harms\/\">WP<\/a> $)<\/p>\n<p><strong>2 Nvidia has committed up to $105 billion to OpenAI\u2019s Ohio data center<\/strong><br \/>It\u2019s slated to cost up to $500 billion and come online in 2028. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/08\/17\/nvidia-financing-open-ai-data-center-ohio.html\">CNBC<\/a>)<br \/><em>+ OpenAI will lease the eight-gigawatt site for 20 years.<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/08\/17\/technology\/nvidia-ohio-data-center-openai.html\">NYT<\/a> $)<br \/><em>+ How virtual power plants could provide energy for data centers. <\/em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2026\/06\/03\/1138350\/virtual-power-plants-data-centers\/?utm_source=the_download&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&amp;utm_term=*%7CSUBCLASS%7C*&amp;utm_content=*%7CDATE:m-d-Y%7C*\">MIT Technology Review<\/a>)<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>3 Tesla is set to launch Cybercab robotaxi rides in Austin this month<\/strong><br \/>The rollout could begin with employee rides on public roads. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/tesla-readies-august-launch-cybercab-robotaxi-without-steering-wheel\">Information<\/a> $)<br \/><em>+ The EVs will then enter Tesla\u2019s robotaxi service \u200ca few days later.<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/autos-transportation\/tesla-prepares-cybercab-launch-august-starting-with-rides-employees-information-2026-08-17\/\">Reuters<\/a> $)<br \/><em>+ The Tesla Semi could also be a big deal for EVs. <\/em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2026\/05\/14\/1137197\/tesla-semi-electric-trucking\/?utm_source=the_download&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&amp;utm_term=*%7CSUBCLASS%7C*&amp;utm_content=*%7CDATE:m-d-Y%7C*\">MIT Technology Review<\/a>)<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>4 Unitree has unveiled a humanoid it claims is faster than any human<\/strong><br \/>The new \u201cSuperman\u201d robot can cover 12.66 meters in a second. (<a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/its-official-no-man-can-outrun-our-robot-overlords-2000799565\">Gizmodo<\/a>)<br \/><em>+ It arrives ahead of the Chinese company\u2019s IPO on Wednesday.<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/chinese-humanoid-robot-maker-unitree-list-shanghai-august-19-2026-08-17\/\">Reuters<\/a> $)<br \/><em>+ US robot startups are struggling with new China restrictions.<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/restofworld.org\/2026\/china-robot-ban-silicon-valley\/\">Rest of World<\/a>)<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>5 A tracked rare book shipment led to Amazon\u2019s AI training operation<\/strong><br \/>Amazon scans and destroys books at the facility to train AI. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/we-tracked-a-shipment-of-rare-books-it-ended-at-an-amazon-ai-training-facility\/\">404 Media<\/a> $)<br \/><em>+ Rare books provide unique, high-quality training data. <\/em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/08\/hidden-airtag-reveals-amazon-is-trashing-rare-books-to-train-ai\/\">Ars Technica<\/a>)<br \/><em>+ But feeding them to AI risks creating a cultural void.<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2584715-feeding-our-books-into-generative-ai-risks-creating-a-cultural-void\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&amp;utm_content=home&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_source=NSNS\">New Scientist<\/a> $)<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>6 China wants its data to shape what the world\u2019s AI knows<\/strong><br \/>Beijing is distributing datasets reflecting \u201cmainstream Chinese values.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/08\/17\/world\/asia\/china-ai-data-chatbots.html\">NYT<\/a> $)<br \/><em>+ What\u2019s next for Chinese open-source AI?<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2026\/02\/12\/1132811\/whats-next-for-chinese-open-source-ai\/?utm_source=the_download&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&amp;utm_term=*%7CSUBCLASS%7C*&amp;utm_content=*%7CDATE:m-d-Y%7C*\">MIT Technology Review<\/a>)<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>7 An AI studio wants to become the HBO of adult content<\/strong><br \/>Rogue\u2019s AI video tool produces uncensored adult content. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/this-r-rated-film-studio-wants-to-be-the-hbo-of-ai\/\">Wired<\/a> $)<br \/><em>+ AI is creating new risks for porn actors.<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2026\/05\/14\/1137161\/ai-porn-nonconsensual-deepfakes-takedown-piracy-copyright\/?utm_source=the_download&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&amp;utm_term=*%7CSUBCLASS%7C*&amp;utm_content=*%7CDATE:m-d-Y%7C*\">MIT Technology Review<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>8 Women are being left behind in the AI jobs boom<\/strong><br \/>They accounted for just 26% of new AI hires last year.<strong> (<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/08\/18\/ai-women-jobs-hiring\">Axios<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>9 AI has revealed new clues to how breast cancer progresses<\/strong><br \/>The findings could help predict how tumours will develop. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/health\/breast-cancer-diagnosis-cure-ai-symptoms-b3034278.html\">Independent<\/a>)<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>10 An unearthed video suggests Apple is adding cameras to AirPods<\/strong><br \/>It shows AirPods identifying a book using visual intelligence. (<a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/unearthed-video-seems-to-reveal-apple-airpods-that-can-see-2000799688\">Gizmodo<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Quote of the day<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u201c<\/strong><strong>It is a black hole; it absorbs energy and personality and then re-presents it as spectacle.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u2014Writer Carmen Hermosillo made a prescient observation about life online in a 1994 essay, quoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/aug\/18\/the-long-read-democracy-v-the-machine-digital-age-warnings-computer-history-technology\">the Guardian<\/a> in a story on warnings we ignored about the digital age.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>One More Thing<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3000\" height=\"1688\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.technologyreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSF3850.jpg?w=840\" alt='\"\"' class=\"wp-image-1118686\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-credit\">TERRY RATZLAFF<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Is this the electric grid of the future?<\/h4>\n<p>When a slow-moving blizzard hit Nebraska, nearly 10% of Lincoln Electric System\u2019s 150,000 customers lost power. CEO Emeka Anyanwu watched the outage map as crews battled the storm. Yet a spring blizzard like this is the least of his problems.<\/p>\n<p>What will happen soon\u2014not only at Lincoln Electric but for all electric utilities\u2014is a challenge of a different order. In the industry, they call it the \u201ctrilemma\u201d: the seemingly intractable problem of balancing reliability, affordability, and sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>Electricity demand is surging, driven in part by AI, while the industry attempts to transition from power generated with fossil fuels to power generated from renewable sources like solar and wind. Lincoln Electric offers a lens through which to examine those challenges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2025\/06\/19\/1118248\/electric-grid-future-lincoln-nebraska-utilities-energy-transition\/?utm_source=the_download&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&amp;utm_term=*%7CSUBCLASS%7C*&amp;utm_content=*%7CDATE:m-d-Y%7C\">Explore the challenges of building the grid of the future<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Andrew Blum<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>We can still have nice things<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>A place for comfort, fun, and distraction to brighten up your day. (Got any ideas? <\/em><a href=\"mailto:thomas.macaulay@technologyreview.com\"><em>Drop me a line<\/em><\/a><em>.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>+ Chinese engineers have built <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tPPr3RoDbR8\">the world\u2019s first true all-material printer<\/a>.<br \/>+ Discover how you truly feel about artificial intelligence by completing <a href=\"https:\/\/bambamramfan.github.io\/ai-compass\/\">the AI Compass quiz<\/a>.<br \/>+ Get a sense of the space\u2019s extraordinary size with this interactive <a href=\"https:\/\/htwins.net\/scale2\/\">scale of the universe tool<\/a>.<br \/>+ Enjoy a fresh look at \u201cBreaking Bad\u201d in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PTlVtPV-Qtw\">this modified scene<\/a> showing Walter White\u2019s hat growing proportionally to his ego.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is today\u2019s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what\u2019s going on in the world of technology. We still don\u2019t know how people are really using AI AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using their products. But they only release the data they want us to see, AI researchers say, and there\u2019s no independent source to corroborate it. A new research project called the AI Observatory aims to fill in the gap. Its analysis shows many more sensitive behaviors than are captured in reports from major AI companies, which focus more on work than on personal use. The researchers also found significant differences between models. People were more likely to turn to Anthropic for coding, Gemini for social and roleplay uses, and ChatGPT for homework assistance. Here\u2019s what the AI Observatory reveals about how people use AI. \u2014Eileen Guo What Flock\u2019s defenders are missing Flock Safety, the police-tech giant known for its network of some 120,000 automatic license plate readers around the US, recently announced changes to its platform. The updates are meant to prevent officers from using it for illegal or illegitimate purposes, including stalking. Amid all this, there have recently been several arguments defending Flock: If these cameras help solve crime, is it as big a deal? On a good day they might help catch a kidnapper, and if not, they\u2019re simply snapping pictures of my car that nobody will bother to look at.\u00a0 But this all skips over a more important question: What kind of crime-fighting system has Flock chosen to build? Its network works the way it does because of decisions about what information to collect, who can search it, how long to keep it, and how widely to share it. Those decisions set the terms of the bargain between security and civil liberties. Find out what a narrower Flock system could look like. \u2014James O\u2019Donnell This story is from The Algorithm, our weekly AI newsletter. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Monday. The must-reads I\u2019ve combed the internet to find you today\u2019s most fun\/important\/scary\/fascinating stories about technology. 1 A child privacy trial starting today could change Meta foreverMore than half of the states in the US have joined the lawsuit. (CNBC)+ They say Meta\u00a0deliberately designed addictive social networks. (Guardian)+ And want changes including ending \u201clike\u201d counts and infinite scroll. (BBC)+ Four of them are demanding $1.4 trillion in damages. (WP $) 2 Nvidia has committed up to $105 billion to OpenAI\u2019s Ohio data centerIt\u2019s slated to cost up to $500 billion and come online in 2028. (CNBC)+ OpenAI will lease the eight-gigawatt site for 20 years. (NYT $)+ How virtual power plants could provide energy for data centers. (MIT Technology Review)\u00a03 Tesla is set to launch Cybercab robotaxi rides in Austin this monthThe rollout could begin with employee rides on public roads. (Information $)+ The EVs will then enter Tesla\u2019s robotaxi service \u200ca few days later. (Reuters $)+ The Tesla Semi could also be a big deal for EVs. (MIT Technology Review)\u00a04 Unitree has unveiled a humanoid it claims is faster than any humanThe new \u201cSuperman\u201d robot can cover 12.66 meters in a second. (Gizmodo)+ It arrives ahead of the Chinese company\u2019s IPO on Wednesday. (Reuters $)+ US robot startups are struggling with new China restrictions. (Rest of World)\u00a05 A tracked rare book shipment led to Amazon\u2019s AI training operationAmazon scans and destroys books at the facility to train AI. (404 Media $)+ Rare books provide unique, high-quality training data. (Ars Technica)+ But feeding them to AI risks creating a cultural void. (New Scientist $)\u00a06 China wants its data to shape what the world\u2019s AI knowsBeijing is distributing datasets reflecting \u201cmainstream Chinese values.\u201d (NYT $)+ What\u2019s next for Chinese open-source AI? (MIT Technology Review)\u00a07 An AI studio wants to become the HBO of adult contentRogue\u2019s AI video tool produces uncensored adult content. (Wired $)+ AI is creating new risks for porn actors. (MIT Technology Review) 8 Women are being left behind in the AI jobs boomThey accounted for just 26% of new AI hires last year. (Axios) 9 AI has revealed new clues to how breast cancer progressesThe findings could help predict how tumours will develop. (Independent)\u00a010 An unearthed video suggests Apple is adding cameras to AirPodsIt shows AirPods identifying a book using visual intelligence. (Gizmodo) Quote of the day \u201cIt is a black hole; it absorbs energy and personality and then re-presents it as spectacle.\u201d\u00a0 \u2014Writer Carmen Hermosillo made a prescient observation about life online in a 1994 essay, quoted by the Guardian in a story on warnings we ignored about the digital age. One More Thing TERRY RATZLAFF Is this the electric grid of the future? When a slow-moving blizzard hit Nebraska, nearly 10% of Lincoln Electric System\u2019s 150,000 customers lost power. CEO Emeka Anyanwu watched the outage map as crews battled the storm. Yet a spring blizzard like this is the least of his problems. What will happen soon\u2014not only at Lincoln Electric but for all electric utilities\u2014is a challenge of a different order. In the industry, they call it the \u201ctrilemma\u201d: the seemingly intractable problem of balancing reliability, affordability, and sustainability. Electricity demand is surging, driven in part by AI, while the industry attempts to transition from power generated with fossil fuels to power generated from renewable sources like solar and wind. Lincoln Electric offers a lens through which to examine those challenges. Explore the challenges of building the grid of the future. \u2014Andrew Blum We can still have nice things A place for comfort, fun, and distraction to brighten up your day. (Got any ideas? Drop me a line.) + Chinese engineers have built the world\u2019s first true all-material printer.+ Discover how you truly feel about artificial intelligence by completing the AI Compass quiz.+ Get a sense of the space\u2019s extraordinary size with this interactive scale of the universe tool.+ Enjoy a fresh look at \u201cBreaking Bad\u201d in this modified scene 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