🚨 New pre-print 🚨 Will AI-generated art kill the art profession? There's much speculation about this. But not much experimental evidence. So we designed an expertiment to compare the use of generative AI (text-to-image models) by 50 artists vs laypeople. We had two tasks: 1. Copying task: Designing a prompt for Stable Diffusion to copy a given image; 2. Creative task: Designing a prompt to get as far as possible from a given image; We even asked a #GPT4o agent to perform the same task. In a nutshell: - The expertise of artists allows them to use generative AI more effectively than lay persons. - AI is actually pretty good at using itself to generate art, but the best artists are still human! arxiv.org/abs/2501.12374