U.S. workers saw their share of the U.S. economy (GDP) slide to a record low in the second quarter amid an ongoing productivity boom that is producing output gains which are outpacing wage growth. The very same younger men who tend to use Generative AI more frequently and who are more likely to be power users are the very same workers who seem to be most hurt by the economic consequences of AI generally speaking.
In traditional SaaS, serving an extra free user costs essentially zero. In AI, every time a free user hits "Enter," your GPUs fire, and your cash burns. AI products need to figure out monetization quickly, or compute costs will bankrupt your company.
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