Woman laid off from job

A year ago, a friend of mine—a communications leader with two decades of experience—was laid off from her marketing role. She’s since applied to hundreds of roles she’s qualified for, only to find herself stuck in endless queues of applicants. Another friend, a former creative director at a once-prestigious agency, was recently let go—after months of slowly dismantling his own team. While his position wasn’t directly replaced by AI, the work his agency once relied on—branding, content, creative production—was already vanishing. Why hire a team when you can generate images, headlines, and entire campaigns with a few prompts?

These stories aren’t outliers. Since ChatGPT launched, freelance writing job postings have dropped 30% and graphic design gigs by nearly 20%, according to an analysis of 1.4 million listings on sites like Fiverr, Upwork and Freelance.com. In some cases, according to the BBC, entire editorial teams have been reduced to a single manager overseeing AI-generated content. Many companies now pair senior engineers with AI coding assistants instead of hiring junior staff. Microsoft........

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