Creative Jobs Have Plummeted Amid the AI Boom
The AI boom has, unsuprisingly, coincided with the bleeding of creative jobs in the U.S. The country has lost more than 200,000 jobs over the past four years across creative industries including film, TV, publishing, and graphic design, according to an analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data by economist Joseph Politano.
- ▪The AI boom has, unsuprisingly, coincided with the bleeding of creative jobs in the U.S.
- ▪The country has lost more than 200,000 jobs over the past four years across creative industries including film, TV, publishing, and graphic design, according to an analysis of U.S.
- ▪Bureau of Labor Statistics data by economist Joseph Politano.
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The AI boom has, unsuprisingly, coincided with the bleeding of creative jobs in the U.S. The country has lost more than 200,000 jobs over the past four years across creative industries including film, TV, publishing, and graphic design, according to an analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data by economist Joseph Politano. Roughly 50,000 of those jobs disappeared within the last year. In the Sept. 27 edition of his newsletter, Apricitas Economics, Politano described it as “one of the worst stretches for media employment in modern US history.” The last time these industries sustained this level of job losses was during the recessions of 2001 and 2008, according to Politano. This time, however, there is no broader recession.
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