Damian Barr

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Writer & broadcaster. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🌈 🖊️📚 🎭 📺 📻 🪴 🐔 🥃 He/Him 📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel. I’ve also curated an exhibition about them for Charleston in Lewes. 📕 Maggie & Me. 📕 You Will Be Safe Here. 📺 Big Scottish Book Club on BBC iPlayer. PhD, FRSL, FRSE.

Joined September 2023

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Damian Barr damianbarr.bsky.social · Jan 30
And every time you use ChatGPT, an artist dies a little.
- James McConnachie jamesmcconnachie.bsky.social · Jan 30
  'the UK creative industries — which contributed £125 billion to the economy in 2024 and supported 2.4 million jobs — are being destroyed by an AI sector that... contributed just £11 billion in the same year and supported only 85,000 jobs." www.thetimes.com/culture/film...
  All 2.4m of Britain’s creative workers are at risk — and we know why
  
  A new report into the impact of AI on the creative sector makes for apocalyptic reading. The government must act now
  
  thetimes.com
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Damian Barr

All 2.4m of Britain’s creative workers are at risk — and we know why