Spam machines are only ever funny or interesting by accident. The more they smooth out the wrinkles the more creatively useless they become. The tension is sort of fascinating.
Like I’ve always been interested in generative poetry and other manglings of text, and ChatGPT’s so fucking dull compared to putting a sentence through babelfish a few times.
Honestly, I’ve gotten more laughs out of messing with markov chains with my friends than anything ChatGPT could put out
He come out, Stu.
Read through the paper looking for sample jokes, found none. :(
But this was the issue with the George Carlin bit that was online. I listened to it, it was a reasonable approximation of George’s voice and intonation.
But when it got to the part where it said “I think we can all agree, there’s one comedian better off as AI… Bill Cosby.” and I went “OK, AI did not write that.” AI doesn’t get subversion.
Turns out…
Read through the paper looking for sample jokes, found none. :(
you can’t even say “comedy ensues” because it doesn’t
At the same time, most participants felt the LLMs did not succeed as a creativity support tool, by producing bland and biased comedy tropes, akin to ``cruise ship comedy material from the 1950s, but a bit less racist’'.
holy shit that’s a direct quote from the paper
