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UK Film & TV worker here (currently out of work, lol) it's the same story here, as a lot of our production is for US streamers too. Also a huge part of the story is the 2023 WGA and SAG strikes. Production crawled to a halt and when it started up again they maintained the lower commissioning levels

as someone who works in the film & tv industry who has been replaced by or lost work because of AI …. I mean - it’s not just gaffers or directors who comprise the industry and saying you’d be observing “AI outputs” not sure what that means?

What is happening is not that AI-generated cultural goods are replacing human-made cultural goods; what is happening is that capital is flowing out of the production of cultural goods *entirely,* making us all poorer for it.

I think this is also true for a large portion of "AI related" job losses at large tech companies. It's not primarily that they want to replace workers with AI, it's that they want to dump as much of their cash as possible into AI investment.

We're gonna see YoY nominal growth in hard/soft but that's deceptive as price inflation rate is far higher than the YoY growth rate. There will be a coming wave of failures and liquidations globally, including wage pressures which will work another turn of the screw. It's white knuckle time fr.

It’s the digital age. Came first for journalists and radio, though at least radio deserved it.

Unfortunately the pressure on management to chase projected cost savings can preemptively lead to staff reductions even when the tool gains have never materialised. Benchmark versus the illusion. Short term rewards outweigh long term output

Reasonably certain the account that posted those graphs is just a slop bot doing "ai"-washing. Not that the workplaces aren't being impacted, just that it's not slop engines doing it, it's mostly just horrid investments and the current economic situation.

We’re also just… in a recession too- something obscured to the chart perverts

Historians will wonder why we threw all of nation's wealth into a giant flaming bonfire.

The construction industry is going to absolutely boned when AI goes pop and all their data center deals fall through and future ones are canned. Just no money coming from anywhere else right now.

I'm reminded of a similar analysis of some of the recently canned saudi megaprojects, is that if they actually went ahead as allegedly planned they'd use such an enormous proportion of the world's steel and cement production that it'd drive up the cost for everything else. same as the RAM crunch.

We've seen this all over the place. AI is a convenient excuse for layoffs but they never had time to implement the AI workflows needed to actually replace these jobs. And the software developers who could develop these workflows were some of the hardest hit by AI layoffs.

that's pretty much just a classic example of a gresham's dynamic. bad investment drives out good

This is why most founders go quiet. They buy the lie of automated exponential growth, get burned by empty promises, and then abandon social entirely. Real organic growth takes daily human labor. You either pay a desk to do the actual work or you get crowded out.

This is why most founders go quiet. They buy the lie of automated exponential growth, get burned by empty promises, and then abandon social entirely. Real organic growth takes daily human labor. You either pay a desk to do the actual work or you get crowded out.

This is why most founders go quiet. They buy the lie of automated exponential growth, get burned by empty promises, and then abandon social entirely. Real organic growth takes daily human labor. You either pay a desk to do the actual work or you get crowded out.

youtube.com/watch?v=RHXh... Yeah this video goes over how this is happening in gaming as well, just came out recently. All the investment is going into AI with no returns because the promise of gains from that is inflated and too juicy for investors