Translation wages have dropped 30–50% since 2023. Writing jobs on freelance platforms are down ~32% in a single year. If headlines about AI and jobs have giv...
[Translation wages have dropped 30–50%](https://slator.com/slator-2025-language-industry-market-report/) since 2023. Writing jobs on freelance platforms are down ~32% in a single year. If headlines about AI and jobs have given you a knot in your stomach.. these numbers are why. But "all jobs" is almost certainly wrong. Some work is changing fast, some roles are disappearing, new ones are showing up that nobody saw coming.. and the people being affected most are rarely the ones making the decisions. The anxiety is justified. The "all" isn't.
Verdict: The anxiety is legitimate. The "all" is wrong. Translation, content writing, illustration, customer service — already measurably affected, some faster than anyone expected. But "AI will take *all* jobs" assumes AI will progress uniformly across every domain forever, and technology has never worked that way. The question that doesn't get asked enough: who bears the cost of the transition, and is anyone actually helping them through it. The net numbers will probably look fine. They usually do. The people inside those numbers are a different story.