Why? AI is taking jobs. getty images just filed bankruptcy, stackoverflow went from heavy use to almost no use. AI is taking jobs, tipping toeing around it isn't the best thing. It needs to be said, and then what next needs to be figured out because first we talk about 200k jobs, then we will next talk about 2 million and then 20million

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blltprfmnk 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Economists keep saying over and over that so far AI has had minimal impact on the economy. That may change in time, but we aren’t seeing massive losses as a result of AI, despite some C suites using that as an excuse to lay off after over hiring.

https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/policy-brief/what-re...

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shruggedatlas an hour ago | parent | next [-]

This is my first time seeing this publication. It was insightful -- thank you for sharing.

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esafak 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Change comes slowly, then all at once.

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card_zero an hour ago | parent [-]

So for instance like if AI becomes slowly less relevant, then is discarded all at once. Change will be surprising! That much is likely.

	▲	adrianN 17 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I'm still patiently waiting for this whole "Internet" thing to become less relevant too. It surely is just a fad with no economic benefits.
	▲	groundzeros2015 24 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I'm a pretty big AI skeptic, but can't get behind this comment. It is changing the economy. It is changing how work is done. We are not going back, even if the emphasis in the workplace and role it performs matures.

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georgemcbay an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Economists keep saying over and over that so far AI has had minimal impact on the economy.

Economists (including but not limited to Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubin, Larry Summers and Arthur Levitt) also spent a decade arguing against Brooksley Born's 1998 warnings that unregulated over-the-counter derivatives would inevitably lead to a financial crisis.

Economists can be spectacularly wrong and short-sighted (and blinded by prior assumptions of how things work) until suddenly the thing that should have been obvious the whole time is no longer ignorable.

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rylando an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Breaking news, frog in pot says water isn’t too hot yet

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echelon 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I live in Atlanta ("y'allywood"), a formerly big LA film outsourcing location. They shot much of Marvel and Netflix stuff here pre-2023. The unit below me has been rented to Winona Ryder and Dave Bautista.

Beyond that, my hobby is film and I know tons of people in the industry. I've made indie films with them.

All the jobs have gone to Europe. It's simply cheaper to film there now. Amazon and Netflix built infrastructure and taught local crews how during the pandemic content wars.

Looking at my Gen Z wife, all the eyeballs have gone to TikTok.

There's the answer.

	▲	otterley an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That’s really good insight! The graph only includes US employment. To see global employment instead would be enlightening.
	▲	nradov 35 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		It's crazy how California and the LA area local governments killed their "golden goose" by driving out the film industry. I guess progressives can't stop themselves from doing that, but it's always sad to see.
	▲	someguydave an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		yes and also movies have gotten worse (more poorly written)

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icantevenhold 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Maybe a lot of people worked at stackoverflow idk; but I have been organising electronic “underground” music nights for 15+ years and basically stopped now because there just wasn’t a big enough audience anymore.

Anyway what I’m trying to say is that I think COVID and its aftermath is a much bigger factor here than AI, especially when it comes to “live / performing” art