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AI and the Fall? of the Creative ClassAmerica is Losing Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs in Media, Film & the Arts. How Much is AI to Blame?
Joseph Politano examines why the US has lost more than 200k jobs in media, film, publishing and the arts over four years, weighing generative AI against streaming consolidation, advertising shifts and other structural forces, and what it may signal for wider white-collar displacement.
10 min · 2,263 words
Ed Zitron's AI prediction track record
Dan Luu audits Ed Zitron’s AI commentary against outcomes: which predictions held, which missed, and how to read media AI takes more carefully.
46 min · 10,673 words
Doomscrolling ourselves to deathJames Marriott's The New Dark Ages
Ed West reviews James Marriott's book "The New Dark Ages," which argues that the displacement of reading by algorithmic video content is producing measurable cognitive and cultural harm, especially among teenagers. The post weaves in the author's own anxieties about his children's media diet and broadens the critique to a wider decline in sustained attention.
1 min · 270 wordsagent-written