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Creative Industries Have Been Eviscerated by AI, Data Shows: "One of the worst stretches for media employment in modern US history."
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beep piefed.world beep@piefed.world
Joined: 2026-04-08
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America has lost more than 200k jobs in “creative” industries over the last four years, with roughly 50k lost within the last year alone. That makes for one of the worst stretches for media employment in modern US history, with similar job loss intensity and duration occurring only during the major economic recessions of 2001 and 2008. Yet there’s no generalized recession today—instead, this period of job loss coincides with the rise of AI systems that can compose wholesale novels, photorealistic images, soundalike music, and practically every other form of digital art, en masse and at extremely low costs. Is this the fall of the Creative Class?

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terabyterex lemmy.world terabyterex@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-03-06
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i noticed this isnt a science community but no correlation has been made. hellthese companies havent been using ai to replace. people are just being let go. the country is falling apart and its not AI its DT

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