When Algorithms Rewrite the Arts: AI and the Shrinking Creative Class
America has shed more than 200,000 jobs in creative industries over the last four years, with roughly 50,000 lost in the past year alone. That makes for one of the worst stretches for media employment in modern US history outside of the recessions of 2001 and 2008. The downturn has coincided with rapid advances in generative AI—systems that can produce novels, images, music, and other digital art at scale—which raises…