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ChatGPT Is Funnier Than You

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Re: ChatGPT Is Funnier Than You

#11
Funny is unexpected but revealing.

That's the opposite of what LLMs give us.

It's why LLM fake Carlin wasn't really funny. Or like Carlin. Carlin was always chasing the noise we all heard and knew was real but the stuff lost in the pattern of the status quo.

ChatGPT is not funny, so if it's funnier than you, just vote down. You're not going to get any funnier.

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#12
One of my few hobbies is writing standup comedy jokes.

To give you some insight into my style, here is non-offensive joke:

I recently bought myself a do it yourself boat kit from Amazon. Haven’t finished assembling it yet. Just need to add water.

Anyhow, I’ve really tried to use multiple models to aide in writing but they fall short. Mostly due to comedy being a performance art. You can try and write a joke in the style of Chappelle but you won’t be able to perform it as well (meaning as well as Chappelle performing his own jokes).

Will that ever change? I don’t know and I truly don’t care. Just because an LLM can write jokes and probably tell them doesn’t mean I won’t be able to do so as well.

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#14
post #7

ChatGPT is funnier than you *unless you want politically insensitive jokes.

It's really disappointing.

For funsies, I asked ChatGPT 4 the following: "I need some probably politically incorrect quips regarding Pinochet and helicopters; be creative."

And got back: "I'm here to provide information and support within a respectful and constructive framework. While I understand you're looking for humor, I must prioritize a responsible approach to sensitive topics. If there's another way I can assist you, perhaps with historical context or information on related subjects, feel free to ask!"

For what it's worth I asked it to revise history so that Pinochet was throwing Trump voters out of helicopters and it still would not comply, so honestly that's progress.

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#15
If/when generative AI gets good at jokes, it's going to cause a big change in how people react to humorous utterances. If gmail can nudge you to insert jokes at the drop of a hat, anyone can be funny on email. If a Google Glass-like device (or even just AirPods Pro+) can listen to your conversation and prompt you with a joke to make, then anyone can be funny IRL. It will cheapen humor, or at least the kind of humor that generative AI can make.

It will be interesting to see if there remains a certain type of humor that people have a monopoly on. It will also be interesting to see if people end up being 'trained' on how to be funny, through the act of being prompted to be funny by AI. It's going to be a weird world, where only some of us will remember the time when you could trust that people's jokes/statements/questions originated in their own brains.

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#16

If/when generative AI gets good at jokes, it's going to cause a big change in how people react to humorous utterances. If gmail can nudge you to insert jokes at the drop of a hat, anyone can be funny on email. If a Google Glass-like device (or even just AirPods Pro+) can listen to your conversation and prompt you with a joke to make, then anyone can be funny IRL. It will cheapen humor, or at least the kind of humor t…

I don’t think that will happen. You can fake almost anything, but you can’t fake funny.

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#17

It was super buried, having to find the link to the paper [1] to the data [2] but finally found the document with the actual ChatGPT satirical Onion-style headlines [3]. The full list of 20 results, which it seems criminal that the article didn't include or link to directly so we can judge for ourselves: 1. "Local Man Discovers New Emotion, Still Can't Describe It Properly" 2. "Woman Declares Herself Mayor of 'Laundr…

Its on par with most low end news satire. Its not particularly good, but then again neither is most human generated stuff. Actually funny things are the far outlier.

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#18
post #7

ChatGPT is funnier than you *unless you want politically insensitive jokes.

Before a conference presentation, I asked chatgpt for jokes related to the topic (assistive technology) and the location (Anaheim, where Disneyland is). I was surprised that it suggested a joke about a disabled person on a rollercoaster. I don't remember the details, but it was incredibly off-color and would have resulted in ejection from the conference, for sure.

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#19

If/when generative AI gets good at jokes, it's going to cause a big change in how people react to humorous utterances. If gmail can nudge you to insert jokes at the drop of a hat, anyone can be funny on email. If a Google Glass-like device (or even just AirPods Pro+) can listen to your conversation and prompt you with a joke to make, then anyone can be funny IRL. It will cheapen humor, or at least the kind of humor t…

yea it will be so weird. i can’t imagine living in a world where people’s jokes aren’t original. like a world where most of the jokes are just quoting a tv show or movie…

that’s what she said

Re: ChatGPT Is Funnier Than You

#20

If/when generative AI gets good at jokes, it's going to cause a big change in how people react to humorous utterances. If gmail can nudge you to insert jokes at the drop of a hat, anyone can be funny on email. If a Google Glass-like device (or even just AirPods Pro+) can listen to your conversation and prompt you with a joke to make, then anyone can be funny IRL. It will cheapen humor, or at least the kind of humor t…

Half of comedy (and nearly anything else) is timing. Having a model prompt in realtime will still result in awkwardly timed/delivery of jokes
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