The trick: Headline Over Filing
Apricitas counts more than 200k lost creative jobs and asks how much is AI.
Its own answer: proving the exact amount is extremely difficult.
Apricitas reports more than 200k creative jobs lost in four years and asks how much is AI.
Before you read on. Your call?
TRUE, BUT
200k
the BLS series shows the jobs are gone, but Apricitas says the exact AI amount is extremely difficult to prove and lists other causes.
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Receipts
- Supports apricitas.io:
America has lost more than 200k jobs in “creative” industries over the last four years
- Context apricitas.io:
Proving the exact amount of AI-driven job loss in the arts is extremely difficult.
- Context apricitas.io:
The effects of AI are also hard to disentangle from other factors currently affecting arts businesses
- Supports apricitas.io:
Yet perhaps the clearest evidence of AI’s influence is just that all subsectors of the digital arts industry are losing jobs
- Context apricitas.io:
consolidation in Hollywood, offshoring of content production
- Supports apricitas.io:
while in-person entertainment is still growing at a healthy pace
- Context apricitas.io:
Then there’s the worst-hit sector, movie & sound recording
- Context apricitas.io:
Some of those digital job losses are just a continuation of prior trends
- Context apricitas.io:
the movie & TV industry losing more than 100k jobs, nearly one-third of the sector’s total
- Context data.bls.gov:
All employees, thousands, motion picture and sound recording industries, seasonally adjusted
- Context data.bls.gov:
2022 440.5 442.0 447.6 441.9 449.8 452.1 455.7 449.8 445.2 448.3 456.1 435.8
- Context data.bls.gov:
2023 415.9 412.5 419.7 423.8 426.9 415.6 406.1 390.0 383.2 377.5 395.8 397.8
- Refutes data.bls.gov:
2024 402.6 401.5 399.5 391.9 390.0 385.9 383.8 384.1 378.8 371.7 368.9 370.7
- Context data.bls.gov:
2025 367.0 365.1 359.3 358.6 354.9 354.3 355.0 349.0 348.8 348.0 347.6 346.1
- Supports beta.peoplematters.in:
Layoffs hit Hollywood: Film industry loses 6,700 jobs as AI reshapes production
- Context beta.peoplematters.in:
It is already reshaping how films are made and how many people are needed to make them.
- Context thewrap.com:
Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery are on track to merge by the end of the third quarter
- Context en.wikipedia.org:
On November 8, 2023, SAG-AFTRA reached a tentative agreement and the strike ended on November 9
- Context budgetlab.yale.edu:
the broader labor market has not experienced a discernible disruption since ChatGPT’s release 33 months ago
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