US creative industries lost over 200k jobs during the AI boom
Original title: America Has Lost 200k of Jobs in Media, Film and the Arts. How Much Is AI?
The author says AI’s share cannot be isolated from Hollywood consolidation, offshoring and the shift to social media.
An Apricitas analysis says the United States lost more than 200,000 jobs in creative industries over four years, including about 50,000 in the last year, without a general recession. Movie and sound recording, including Hollywood, accounts for nearly half of those losses, and written publishing is the next-largest source. The author treats AI as a plausible contributor because digital arts are shrinking while in-person entertainment is still growing, but says causation is not proven.
Unconfirmed: The author says AI’s exact share of the losses cannot be proven and is entangled with other industry trends.
- Movie and TV lost more than 100,000 jobs, nearly one-third of that sector.
- Written publishing employment fell by more than 70,000 over the same four years.
- Losses are described as hovering around 50,000 jobs a year and accelerating recently.
- In-person entertainment employment is still growing, according to the analysis.
From the original article
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