Maybe the archive link stripped it out, but it would be really useful to look at the actual sources, because TFA seems to be, uhh, "selective" in what stats it presents. For example, this source (Alex Bick at the St Louis Federal Bank) seems to be cited:
TFA presents the most pessimistic stat it could find: daily GenAI usage at work growing from 12.1% to 12.6% in a year. (Interestingly there was a dip to 9% in Nov 2024; maybe end-of-year holidays?)
It does not mention that the same tracker also shows that overall usage (at and outside work, at least once last week) has steadily climbed from 44% to 54%. That is a 10 percentage point growth in a year. (This may also be why OpenAI reveals WAU rather than DAU; people mostly regularly use it on a weekly basis.)
Here is something even more interesting from the same authors at the St Louis Fed using the same data:
Really, read that article, it is short and a bit astounding. Money quote:
> When we feed these estimates into a standard aggregate production model, this suggests that generative AI may have increased labor productivity by up to 1.3% since the introduction of ChatGPT. This is consistent with recent estimates of aggregate labor productivity in the U.S. nonfarm business sector. For example, productivity increased at an average rate of 1.43% per year from 2015-2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic. By contrast, from the fourth quarter of 2022 through the second quarter of 2025, aggregate labor productivity increased by 2.16% on an annualized basis. Relative to its prepandemic trend, this corresponds to excess cumulative productivity growth of 1.89 percentage points since ChatGPT was publicly released.
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> We stress that this correlation cannot be interpreted as causal, and that labor productivity is determined by many factors. However, the current results are suggestive that generative AI may already be noticeably affecting industry-level productivity.
https://www.genaiadoptiontracker.com/
TFA presents the most pessimistic stat it could find: daily GenAI usage at work growing from 12.1% to 12.6% in a year. (Interestingly there was a dip to 9% in Nov 2024; maybe end-of-year holidays?)
It does not mention that the same tracker also shows that overall usage (at and outside work, at least once last week) has steadily climbed from 44% to 54%. That is a 10 percentage point growth in a year. (This may also be why OpenAI reveals WAU rather than DAU; people mostly regularly use it on a weekly basis.)
Here is something even more interesting from the same authors at the St Louis Fed using the same data:
https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2025/nov/state-gen...
Really, read that article, it is short and a bit astounding. Money quote:
> When we feed these estimates into a standard aggregate production model, this suggests that generative AI may have increased labor productivity by up to 1.3% since the introduction of ChatGPT. This is consistent with recent estimates of aggregate labor productivity in the U.S. nonfarm business sector. For example, productivity increased at an average rate of 1.43% per year from 2015-2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic. By contrast, from the fourth quarter of 2022 through the second quarter of 2025, aggregate labor productivity increased by 2.16% on an annualized basis. Relative to its prepandemic trend, this corresponds to excess cumulative productivity growth of 1.89 percentage points since ChatGPT was publicly released. ... ...
> We stress that this correlation cannot be interpreted as causal, and that labor productivity is determined by many factors. However, the current results are suggestive that generative AI may already be noticeably affecting industry-level productivity.