New preprint: "Expertise elevates AI usage: experimental evidence comparing laypeople and professional artists"
with @andreskarjus.bsky.social as shared first author, who did a nice summary below ⏬
New preprint of an upcoming book chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution with Limor Raviv: "Communication Games: Social Interaction in the Formation of Novel Communication Systems"
osf.io/preprints/os...
Thanks also to Mar Canet Sola, @levinbrinkmann.bsky.social, Bramantyo Supriyatno, and @iyadrahwan.bsky.social for their contributions!
Some fun results especially in the creative task, like diverging from a photograph of a medieval castle by transforming it into a tattoo on someone's leg 😆
More examples in the paper and especially supplementary material!
New paper published with @andreskarjus.bsky.social as shared 1st author:
We show experimentally that professional artists' skill set can transfer to making images with generative AI; tested with artists, laypeople, and GPT-4o copying an image or creatively diverging from it, only by prompting.
New preprint with @thomasfmueller.bsky.social Julian Garcia @iyadrahwan.bsky.social: Group Selection as a Safeguard Against AI Substitution. arxiv.org/pdf/2602.03541
🚨 New preprint 🚨
Experimental Evidence for the Propagation and Preservation of Machine Discoveries in Human Populations
arxiv.org/abs/2506.17741
with team members @levinbrinkmann.bsky.social @thomasfmueller.bsky.social Ann-Marie Nussberger, @maximederex.bsky.social, Sara Bonati, Valerii Chirkov
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Postdoc Position at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.
Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas...
We are now looking at a broader candidate pool so do consider applying!
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We have already received many wonderful abstracts, thank you all! 🌟
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Generative AI’s novel capacities raise questions about the future role of human expertise: does it level the playing field between professional artists and laypeople, or does expertise enhance AI u...
