ChatGPT Is Funnier Than You
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nautil.us
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.
Louis CK talked about this extensively, especially in relationship to Carlin, Bruce, etc.
Keep doing it!
Because… that joke isn’t funny at all, right?
Anyhow, I don’t post LLM generated anything.
I’d rewrite it and remove the humor. Only add humor if it adds value to the information.
And that’s the crux of it. Focus on giving as much value as possible. Forget the rest.
My actual material is a little more raw. I didn’t want to share it here and somehow end up on twitter cancelled.
The point of AI, to tune and refine everything to be objectively better than humans in every possible respect, basically just to see what that looks like, and then potentially reap the economic benefits of this betterment ?
I saw someone on here being excited about when robots can beat humans at soccer, I know we can do this, and I know this will happen, and I guess that's the point, we just want to see what happens. But I personally don't really understand the appeal. People play soccer to win, sure, but they also play for fun.
Being funny is like this too, it's fun. Asking ChatGPT to write a joke for you doesn't seem fun.
if we look at it, unless we get AI cracking jokes to an other AI, in the end someone want to have jokes written to be heard by an audience on a show.
Is this person the writer for the show, or will suddenly the CFO will fire the writer because it can generate some content with an LLM? It seems to me, this wont happen, we still need experts.
Maybe the expectation of the economics will change.
When excel or other spreadsheets came around, it did have an impact on the expectations from your accountant, because now no need to do the math on paper anymore, you can do more and more effectively, which lead over time to a renegotiation of the economics, but as far as I can tell, accountants haven't disappeared.
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.
Yeah, I can see why that’s territory they probably don’t want to go near.
So it was hilarious? An unchained LLM should be able to write some doozies.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/zlt9tx/pretend_to_...
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.
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.
For example, if you'd been having a conversation about Topic A, then later Topic B, and there was a joke involving a double meaning of a word that relates to both A and B. Wrap that up in a one-liner, put it on a Google Glass, and a decent number of people could deliver it well enough to get a laugh.
The idea that GPT is going to make you funny is a bit like thinking you could be John Lennon if GPT would teach you how to play guitar.
GPT might help you pass off some bit of wit in an email, but any art it creates (comedy is art) is going to be circumscribed by its inability to be truly creative rather than merely copy/regurgitate existing material. And the reason art is hard is because people are extremely perceptive about what is actually creative/funny/surprising. You can’t fake it.
Will it have a good hit rate? Surely not at first, but of course it will get better over time. And just like with graphic arts, much of the value is that it can create lots of options, and you can choose to just use the ones you like best. It's like a wacky brainstormer that is sometimes right-on (or inspires you to create something that you never would have thought of).
"I'll get back to you assuming I remember where my head is tonight!"
that’s what she said
The human thing is to judge the other person, yourself, your relationship, the context of the email, and what you want to achieve with it.
Are you trying to disarm? Flirt? Entertain? Validate? Suck up? Impress? Make someone groan?
And if it backfires, ouch.
The hard part now isn't the joke part. It's the right type of joke in the right place at the right time. And AI doesn't know enough about each of your relationships or what exactly you're trying to achieve with each interaction...
It would be interesting if you interacted with someone for years over email, and then finally met in person and found out they were not funny at all. Put that in a dating app and it's along the lines of using filters on your photos. There's more than one way to be a disappointment in person.
Most human comics refine their material by trying it out on tough crowds.
Generation without feedback and refinement isn't going to be all that great, but with the proper refinement pipeline, who knows - maybe it can be outstanding.
This one made me chuckle. I think because it highlights the primal nature of humans who regard themselves as more civilized and superior to others... My feeling of superiority over those primal judgmental people brought me delight, which made me realize my own primal nature... Which made it funnier.
Then I realized that laughing at one's own self is the ultimate sign of superiority which made me feel yet more superior and delighted.
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The link ([3]) also include 50 actual headlines from the Onion for comparison.
These are all pretty unfunny but if this is the pun I think it is, not too bad though the premise is EH.
I would even go so far as to say they are pretty bad.
It basically can't. The closest one is "What do you call a hacker who is happy and optimistic? A unicorn. Because they don’t exist. "
Yo mama so fat...
...when she breaks a plate it's considered a strategic military strike
...when she sucked in her stomach there was a breeze
...when she fell in love there was a whale song
...every time I call her I get charged for an international phone call