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Actual comedians try to use LLM in a writing room. Result: “cruise ship comedy material from the 1950s, but a bit less racist” (arxiv.org)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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[–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I mean they come up to ChatGPT on v3.5 (or Bard lmao) and expect it to write comedy?

Yeah, these things are supposed to be good at writing, aren't they?

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Define "good at writing". Good comedy is very difficult to attain and none of the models are anywhere near it, including the more recent ones.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Define “good at writing”.

    I don't want to.

    Good comedy is very difficult to attain and none of the models are anywhere near it, including the more recent ones.

    I concur.

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  • [+] -10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    a true conversationalist lmao you're doing great buddy

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    oh, you were looking for the lmao conversations room? you missed the turn: it’s the last door inside clown school. you’re not even in the right building atm!

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  • [+] -10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    hey you're the creepy guy who reads comment history before replying to a conversation aren't you ?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I thought the point of posting your ideas on a public forum was to have people read them.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    nah, there’s nothing creepier than giving some shithead the common courtesy of checking their post history to see if they’re somehow like this all the time or if they’re just having a particularly bad night

    gonna be honest, I didn’t give this one that common courtesy cause once they get to the stage where they creepjacket other posters for looking at their previous terrible posts, whatever Reddit has done to their brain is severe and irreversible

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    this isn't Oprah Ft Holographic Dr Phil, stop projecting

    I merely looked after you went 3 for 3 on idiotic posts

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    Dunno what you want me to say. Define the vague concept of "good writing"?

    The linked study finds that ChatGPT 3.5 and Bard suck at writing comedy. You claim in so many words that this should be obvious (along with a really dubious claim that machines can't tickle people for some reason). I'm also not surprised that these models are terrible at writing comedy, because even at best of times I find their output bland, trite and crudely stripped of anything potentially divisive.

    However, lots of people seem to think that LLMs are good at writing related tasks, so I don't think it's inherently obvious that these tools suck at writing comedy in particular.

    All these words make this reply much less fun to write.

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