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Another interesting claim I have come across is that AI investment is now larger that consumer spending:

https://sherwood.news/markets/the-ai-spending-boom-is-eating...



Put a comment on this below, but the claim is highly misleading...consumer spending is ~$5 trillion, AI investment is ~$100 billion. The graph is looking at something like contribution to GDP growth (not contribution to GDP), but that is even misleading b/c if you don't adjust for seasonality, H1 consumer spending is almost always lower than H2 consumer spending of the previous year (because Q4 always has a higher level of consumer spending).

(comment below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44804528 )


To clarify, AI investment has contributed more to GDP GROWTH than consumer spending.

So they are talking about changes not levels.




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