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GDP Growth in Second Quarter Slows to 1.5%, No Evidence of AI Productivity Boom (cepr.net)

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^a succint highly professional description of the US economy right now as it is monomaniacally leveraged into AI.

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[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 1 points 19 hours ago

Even then that's extremely charitably assuming that this hypothetical productivity gain is put to good use, with ai-pilled management that's just adding bloat 10% faster with a side of mindless tech debt