The A.I. Daily
US Creative Industries Shed 200k Jobs; How Much Is AI to Blame?
Apricitas's Joseph Politano notes US creative industries lost over 200,000 jobs in four years, about 50,000 in the past year alone—a slump as severe as 2001 and 2008 despite no generalized recession. Job losses across every digital-arts subsector while in-person entertainment grows is the clearest sign of AI's role, though firms are coy about AI use, making attribution hard.