Evolutionary linguist, cultural analyst, lecturer in DH&AI @ Tallinn Uni, researcher @ EBS, associate professor of comp soc sci @ Uni Tartu
andreskarjus.github.io (academic)
datafigure.eu (DH&AI workshops&consulting)
Andres Karjus
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Getting this from preprint to journal took a lil while, but happy it's finally out. Big thanks for great collab to coauthors @thomasfmueller.bsky.social @levinbrinkmann.bsky.social @mcanet.bsky.social B.Supriyatno, @iyadrahwan.bsky.social
Now out in @tandfresearch.bsky.social International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction:
"Expertise Elevates AI Usage: Experimental Evidence Comparing Laypeople and Professional Artists"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
50 pro artists vs randos vs AI agent used image generators to do art:
In light of recent AI writing debates, NeurIPS rejecting papers based on AI-detector results (lol), and certain academics piling AI user colleagues on the other app...
What is actually more important in an academic paper:
- the prose, narrative, writing, or
- the question, method, result, insight?
Turns out being a domain expert (here, a practing professional artist) does indeed help - the latter produced more faithful copies and more creative divergent pieces. But AI (GPT-4o which was sota back then) blows laymen out of the water and challenges artists.
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.
Amazing scene at a socsci internet research seminar.
At the end a comp sci guy asks if there's maybe practical takeaways, action points we could summarize.
First gets accused of "sounding like chatgpt", then a socsci lady pulls out a pack and goes well no but can I interest you in these tarot cards?
Not even out of context. Quite literally, we don't do action points or policy recommendations, but have you seen our special tarot cards.
I'm grateful to be invited to these more qualitative research and soc sci spaces sometimes, but sometimes it can be...interesting. Very nice seminar though.
