MIT Technology Review: We Still Don't Actually Know How People Use AI
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Published August 18, the piece argues that the usage reports Anthropic and OpenAI publish about Claude and ChatGPT are self-selected disclosures — the labs release the data they want seen, and outside researchers have no independent way to audit adoption, task mix or dependence. It lands the same week OpenAI shipped behavioral age-prediction, which infers minor status from account age and activity patterns the public can't inspect. The gap matters for anyone reasoning about AI adoption from vendor-published charts: the denominator is unverifiable.