168M employees / 340M people in the US.

Means 51% unemployed people.

Raw figures

> Raw figures

sure, for an upper bound.

how many of those 340M people are actually employable? how many are children? how many are retired? permanently unable to work?

subtract those out, it’s a better upper bound but still a swag

then add in all the self-employed, your swag is a little better, still a swag

your throwaway name is apt and funny

That’s the point of raw figures.

You are asking for not raw figures.

But if you do the math and subtract out another 75-100M it’s still very bad

Only if you count my eight year old as “unemployed.”

They are self reported, any YouTube author can just say whether or not their video is ai, and they rarely do of they spent hours editing.

Look at gossipgoblin - you think that’s “just ai”?

He used AI but his site says “No AI”

Where do you get he used AI?

The generated code and comments with emoji are very obvious

Emojis have been over-used by javascript developers for decades. Long before LLMs, the README of any javascript project was filled with emojis. A non trivial amount of projects even add emojis to their git messages!

As unpleasant as emojis are in this context, they aren't a reliable tell about AI.