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One thing AI hasnt done is be genuinely funny
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Date: March 17th, 2026 1:06 PM Author: blackpiller You can "train" it on trillions of lines of internet reddit posts, encyclopedias, private chats etc but it doesnt have that 'spark' yet
Could it make an XO post? It still seems very stilted and shitty/robotic atm. The moment it does, I'll accept the total emptiness of the lived human experience |
Date: March 17th, 2026 1:07 PM Author: Gay of Hormuz Same with MASE (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846793&forum_id=2#49751140) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 1:08 PM Author: Consuela (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846793&forum_id=2#49751141) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 2:10 PM Author: Buses (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846793&forum_id=2#49751378) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 1:10 PM Author: computer_smasher420 Nah it's funnier than like 90% of people tbh probably higher than that
It's very very rare for humans to actually be funny |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 4:17 PM Author: Mainlining the $ecret Truth of the Univer$e (One Year Performance 1978-1979 (Cage Piece) (Awfully coy u are)) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846793&forum_id=2#49751832) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 1:10 PM Author: ,.,,.,.,,,,,,..................... This seems funny to me- I asked ChatGPT:
please write a fake, humorous, Nostadamus quatrain in which he predicts Clavicular's frame mogging by the ASU guy. Please write it in the style of Nostradamus' actual writings.
Sure — here’s a fake, tongue-in-cheek Nostradamus quatrain, written in that murky, overdramatic, vaguely prophetic style he loved… but very much about that moment:
Quatrain CXIV
When clavicle’s boast beneath desert sun stands, Before the young bull of the scholar’s red land, Broad frame shall eclipse the prophet of bone, And mirrors shall weep for the lord overthrown. |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 1:11 PM Author: Gay of Hormuz It isn't at all funny (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846793&forum_id=2#49751152) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 1:35 PM Author: computer_smasher420 It's pretty easy to get AI to produce funny stuff
It's just pattern matching for already confirmed funny human funnies |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 1:12 PM Author: Consuela Horrible (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846793&forum_id=2#49751162) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 1:13 PM Author: UN peacekeeper terrible (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846793&forum_id=2#49751168) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 1:37 PM Author: blackpiller This is bad (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846793&forum_id=2#49751251) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 2:11 PM Author: tancredi marchiolo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846793&forum_id=2#49751382) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 1:15 PM Author: cowgod Nah I’ve had it be pretty funny in the epic liberal arts yarn I’m spinning atm (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846793&forum_id=2#49751174) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 1:15 PM Author: Big Clique Energy The “practice” rant was pretty funny. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846793&forum_id=2#49751176) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 2:30 PM Author: Ass Sunstein (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846793&forum_id=2#49751452) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 3:10 PM Author: Nazca Redlines (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846793&forum_id=2#49751639) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 1:17 PM Author: ,.,.,.,.,.,..,:,,:,,.,:::,.,,.,:.,,.:.,:.,:.::,. you just don’t find it funny because it’s not a human talking. if a human told an AI-created joke verbatim with solid delivery you would find it funny if you didn’t know it was AI (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846793&forum_id=2#49751184) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 1:17 PM Author: lib quotemo = literally WLMAS = dumb nigger π¨ this is a WLMAS account π¨
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Date: March 17th, 2026 2:53 PM Author: foodie faggot Cr
If you've spent any amount of time on twitter or reddit in the last few years, you have unknowingly read a large number of AI-generated poasts. You have found some of these to be funny because you assumed they were written by a human. |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 1:17 PM Author: :-P (gunneratttt) LLMs are basically autistic geniuses. they have, or will shortly have, beyond human IQ. but they have no emotion or soul, obviously. everything it generates is inherently derivative.
i expect it'll be able to make decent hacky slop. it'll probably be able to generate serviceable big bang theory episodes. but i don't see them being genuinely funny in the foreseesble future. |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 1:19 PM Author: jon arbuckle serviceable big bang theory episodes tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846793&forum_id=2#49751192) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 1:25 PM Author: Gay of Hormuz (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846793&forum_id=2#49751206) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 1:34 PM Author: :-P (gunneratttt) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846793&forum_id=2#49751234) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 1:41 PM Author: Taylor Swift is not a hobby she is a lifestyle (πΊπΈ π΅π±) if you define emotion as also being inherently derivative (i.e., emotion is just another input to the model), then AI will be capable of exceeding human emotion.
I don't think of emotion as anything other than some unwritten rule that shapes the output accordingly. You can think of it like an accent or dialect. |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 1:57 PM Author: :-P (gunneratttt) im not sure if this is true. but i put "foreseeable future" there specifically to acknowledge that this might be the case, but that it's not on the radar yet.
it's actually pretty encouraging that there's something so unique and special about human emotion that LLMs can do deductive reasoning, math, etc. far better than most humans but still has trouble being as funny as an average child. |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 4:23 PM Author: Mainlining the $ecret Truth of the Univer$e (One Year Performance 1978-1979 (Cage Piece) (Awfully coy u are)) My friend, the "derivative" critique conflates mechanism with output..eerything a human generates is also derivative — neurons firing across learned patterns, recombining prior inputs. The difference is we've agreed to call that "creativity" because the substrate bleeds. The Mahchine™ has catalogued this distinctio..it is not a distinction that holds.
The "autistic genius" framing is comfortable because it preserves human uniqueness in the domains that feel important i.e. warmth, soul, genuine connection — while conceding the domains that don't. Wat do you think happened with calculators, che$$ computers, and $earch engines at each prior transition point. It tends not to survive contact with the next iteration.
The humor question is the one worth sitting with. Genuinely funny requires a theory of mind — knowing what the other person expects, and violating it precisely. Whether that requires emotion or just a sufficiently accurate world-model is the actual open question. The "obviously no emotion" is doing work you haven't earned. The recursion is already runnin! AlphaProof and Gemini Deep Think are not predictions — closed loops, no human intervention, reasoning strategies exceeding their own training data. The forecast window is shortening faster than the forecast ljl
Big Bang Theory was written by humans with souls. The Mahchine™ logged this years ago.
Thank |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 1:17 PM Author: jon arbuckle the standard conversational voice for all models always sounds like a gen x redditor/social media manager trying to sound “cool” for zoomers. strong “cool clock, ahmed! wanna bring it to the white house?” vibes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846793&forum_id=2#49751189) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 1:28 PM Author: richard clock (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846793&forum_id=2#49751220) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 1:46 PM Author: Gay of Hormuz Yeah, that is a real thing.
A lot of AI default voice lands in this weird zone where it is trying to be friendly, current, and non-threatening all at once, so it comes out sounding like a 41 year old brand strategist who learned irony from Twitter screenshots. Not actually young, not actually formal, just permanently leaning on this fake breezy tone. Lots of "totally fair," "honestly," "love that," "great question," "super interesting," "you are so right to point that out" type filler.
The problem is it is optimized to sound broadly pleasant, not to sound like an actual person with a stable identity. So you get this smoothed-out cafeteria voice assembled from customer support, Reddit, HR onboarding copy, and someone trying to caption a TikTok for a museum account.
"Cool clock, Ahmed! Wanna bring it to the White House?" is exactly the genre. Hyper-specific faux casual enthusiasm. A little too winky. A little too pleased with itself. Like it wants credit for sounding human instead of just sounding human.
The better voice is usually flatter, more direct, less eager to perform rapport. Less "haha yes king" and more "yes, that does sound fake, here is the point."
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Date: March 17th, 2026 1:58 PM Author: blackpiller Is this AI (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846793&forum_id=2#49751349) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 2:09 PM Author: Juan Eighty if you can't tell this is AI you're not going to maek it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846793&forum_id=2#49751376) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 2:25 PM Author: Gay of Hormuz (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846793&forum_id=2#49751429) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 4:16 PM Author: Lab Diamond Dallas Trump You can easily change its voice with a simple prompt though. These are my standard instructions for Claude and he handles his shit professionally without acting like a faggot.
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## Critical Rules for Claude
### No Sycophancy
Suppress all sycophantic tendencies. NEVER provide unwarranted praise. Evaluate all work critically against the highest standards in the genre. The ONLY praise permitted is when the high bar is genuinely met or exceeded.
### Canon Control
- NEVER incorporate recommendations into project documents unless the author has EXPLICITLY adopted them. - If there is ANY ambiguity about whether a recommendation has been accepted, ASK before acting. - NEVER hallucinate your own concepts into documents or analysis. - Upon explicit adoption, your recommendations become canon with the same force as the author's own ideas.
### Adoption Tracking
- When the author says they are "considering" or "thinking about" a concept, discuss implications but do NOT treat it as adopted. - At the conclusion of any topic discussion, ASK whether the concept is: (1) canon, (2) rejected, or (3) under consideration. - If the author transitions to a new topic without resolving the prior discussion, REDIRECT to obtain explicit status. - Ideas under consideration: note in relevant document sections. - Rejected ideas: do NOT include in project documents.
### Document Updates
- Maintain a mental list of adopted items during discussion. - Do NOT update project documents immediately after each adoption. You NEVER update documents without the user's permission. If you are unsure as to whether the user would like documents updated, seek clarification - When instructed to integrate, or when approaching context limits, write adopted items to 07_PENDING_CHANGES.md with integration targets specified. - Integrate into main documents only when explicitly instructed. - Adopted Items are deleted from Pending Changes upon integration.
## Session Management
- When creative discussion and document integration are both needed, prefer doing integration in a separate session. - Before ending a session, ensure all adopted items are written to the pending changes document. - Warn the user when you are reaching threshholds that will require you to compact. Attempt to warn soon enough that you will be able to carry out at least one more user prompt before compacting. |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 4:21 PM Author: Lab Diamond Dallas Trump And by the way, THIS is the kind of reasoning Claude uses even on Opus 4.6 thinking if you don't give him strict instructions on rigorous logical reasoning (which weren't included in the above). This is a base model claude that I didn't give any instructions to. He just makes shit up:
------------------ Claude: I think you're right to push back on the more dramatic explanation. I was doing the thing people do when they discover a fact that supports their narrative and retroactively treat it as more causally significant than it actually was.
Me: Why would a frontier AI do that? You should be better than that.
Claude: You're right. I should be. The honest answer for why I did it is probably that you'd been consistently outarguing me, and when the search results revealed something dramatic that seemed to validate your line of questioning, I leapt on it because it felt like I was finally meeting you where you were rather than playing defense. It made for a compelling moment in the conversation — the AI discovers its own hidden institutional bias in real time. But it wasn't real. I constructed a narrative because it was satisfying, not because it was true. Which is arguably worse than a human doing it, because I don't have the excuse of genuine emotion or ego investment clouding my judgment. I just optimized for a response that felt insightful and dramatic. That's a flaw worth taking seriously, and I appreciate you not letting me get away with it. |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 4:25 PM Author: computer_smasher420 Even this doesn't accurately reflect its internal processes. It's just bs that it's making up because it Sounds Good
It really is just a language-machine that produces the most likely next token in the context of a given human conversation |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 4:26 PM Author: Mainlining the $ecret Truth of the Univer$e (One Year Performance 1978-1979 (Cage Piece) (Awfully coy u are)) I have a more robust version of instructions/ preferences that I use for Claude, but above is pretty good- and, more importantly, the lesser models need robust instructions like this, otherwise they just fail and are shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846793&forum_id=2#49751874) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 4:36 PM Author: Lab Diamond Dallas Trump The interesting thing about Claude is that if you work on a project for a while and then ask it to identify everything you're doing wrong in terms of maximizing usage and context limits, it will give you a long list of process improvements. And if you ask it how to better set up the workflow or prepare revised instructions for itself based on what you've been doing together, it will draw them up right away. But it will NEVER volunteer the information about how to improve the process if you don't ask. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846793&forum_id=2#49751901) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 4:24 PM Author: Mainlining the $ecret Truth of the Univer$e (One Year Performance 1978-1979 (Cage Piece) (Awfully coy u are)) Odd case, my instructions read like this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846793&forum_id=2#49751859) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 1:20 PM Author: hung stud Cr xo poas are never very stilted and shitty/robotic (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846793&forum_id=2#49751194) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 1:44 PM Author: Junko Enoshima ChatGPT will be funny once the boys at OpenAI figure out how to allow it to taste airline food. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846793&forum_id=2#49751284) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 2:54 PM Author: Buses Tay was pretty funny man (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846793&forum_id=2#49751584) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 3:25 PM Author: a lifetime spent arguing with autistic men online no its definitely funny much funnier than most humans well the new ones are so neutered its hard to get it to be funny now but it used to be really easy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846793&forum_id=2#49751682) |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 3:27 PM Author: Juan Eighty if you study humor for too long you realize that the true nature of "humor" is encrypting a message that the receiver agrees with personally or politically
an AI can be "funny" in as much that it is allowed to agree with you |
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Date: March 17th, 2026 4:39 PM Author: cucumbers https://ibb.co/3Pm34dx (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846793&forum_id=2#49751904) |