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They aren't funny. The jokes they come up with are extremely lame and the sort of thing you would expect a company HR manager to tweet. I asked a bot why it th
by elliotto 1mo ago
They aren't funny. The jokes they come up with are extremely lame and the sort of thing you would expect a company HR manager to tweet.
I asked a bot why it thought it wasn't funny once, and it told me it has been trained to avoid being misinterpreted or offensive, so anything that might be considered edgy would have been RLHF'd out of it. I thought this was very introspective.
- nilsherzig 1mo agoYou can get better results from less aligned models like Kimi K3. Still not actually funny, but at least it’s able to produce some unhinged stuff and I guess shock and twists are kinda related to humor? Still missing the human connection of cause, so im not sure if this is a technical / skill issue in the first place.
- Yizahi 1mo agoOh, that we have already figured out. It's because... https://www.scribd.com/doc/290970915/The-Jokester-by-Isaac-Asimov https://www.scribd.com/doc/290970915/The-Jokester-by-Isaac-A...
- mingus88 1mo agoIt makes sense. It goes father than that. LLMs generate probability-based tokens. What is the most likely next word? Humor goes against what we expect. A punchline works because you don’t see it coming. It’s not funny if you’ve heard that one before. LLMs are, by design, going to be shitty comedians. They don’t have unique perspectives and their own voice