The comics of the future may be a bit too robotic for our liking – literally.
And we’re not talking about their joke delivery. A recent study discovered that people find ChatGPT-produced jokes funnier than those written by humans.
The research, by the University of Southern California, was blinded, meaning the participants were unaware who wrote the jokes before giving their answer.
They voted resoundingly in favor of the AI jokes – with 75 percent saying they were funnier than the human ones.
So can you tell the difference between AI-generated humor and the good old-fashioned human kind?
Are robots funnier than human beings? (Rob Waugh/Midjourney)
For DailyMail.com’s test, we asked ChatGPT to come up with five short, funny and original jokes and then found five human-written jokes which were highly rated by online users on Reddit.
We prompted ChatGPT to come up with its own original ideas, and compared these against human humor.
But can YOU tell which is which?
One of the boxes below was generated by AI, with a brief to be original, and one is filled with ordinary, human-written jokes. The answers are at the bottom of this article.
We manually checked ChatGPT’s answers to see if it was ‘stealing’ other people’s jokes.
The USC Study pitted ChatGPT against human writers in scenarios where the bot is forced to be original.
Left to its own devices, it tends to regurgitate other people’s jokes, even when told not to.
Study author Drew Gorenz, a doctoral candidate in social psychology at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences said: ‘Since ChatGPT can’t feel emotions itself but it tells novel jokes better than the average human, these studies provide evidence that you don’t need to feel the emotions of appreciating a good joke to tell a really good one yourself.’
