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Andres Karjus @andreskarjus.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

How does #genAI affect creative professions? Does domain training also provide an #AI edge? In "Expertise elevates AI usage: experimental evidence comparing laypeople and professional artists" we ran controlled tasks w 50 artists + laypeople & a #GPT4o agent: arxiv.org/abs/2501.12374 Results... ⏬

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Andres Karjus @andreskarjus.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

...are both surprising and also not. We ran 2 tasks, copying & creative, emulating artistic practice using #stablediffusion. Trained artists outperform laypeople in both as expected. GPT does well in copy.. but outperforms even professionals in the creative task 😯 Wait what?

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Andres Karjus @andreskarjus.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

The setup was: participant looks at reference image and either writes a prompt to recreate it, or in creative: to create something as different as possible (but we fixed the first part of the original generation prompt e.g. "A photo of a mini cooper", so they had to get creative). The top results:

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