ha… wait, yes! Haha!

every time i see someone arguing in favor of ai art, my lymhonodes get a little more swollen

Are we seeing AI generated jokes now? Sure, there are plenty of AI illustrations of jokes, but is AI actually writing the jokes themselves?

I asked ChatGPT to write a related joke, and this is what it said:
Why did the computer get kicked out of the finger-counting contest? Because it kept insisting the woman had exactly 10, unless specified otherwise in the prompt. 😆💻✋
So, no, LLMs are not writing (good) jokes yet.
- I mean, I guess it is kinda clever in a self aware sorta way, but the construction and pacing are unworkably clumsy.
- I asked deepseek that question and it replied:
  The computer got kicked out of the finger-counting contest because it started counting from zero!
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Why did the finger-counting contest end in a tie?
Because everyone could only count on themselves!
Why did the mathematician lose the finger-counting contest?
Because he kept trying to carry the one!
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I was judging a finger-counting contest, and it was incredibly close.
On the one hand, the defending champion was flawless... but on the other hand, so was he.
Why did the T-Rex get disqualified from the finger-counting contest?
Because he kept coming up short
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Here's one for you:
Why was Yubaba (from Spirited Away) disqualified from the finger-counting contest?
Because she kept adding ten more fingers halfway through!
(For context: Yubaba is a witch who magically grows extra hands with 10 fingers each when counting money. She'd definitely have an unfair advantage! 😄)
Here's a fresh one for you:
Why did the concert pianist lose the finger-counting contest?
Because they kept insisting that a "perfect 10" should involve scales!
(Alternatively, playing on the unexpected twist...)
Why did the robot win the finger-counting contest?
Because it kept saying, "This is too easy—I'm counting in binary!"
Hope that gives you a chuckle! 😄
- None of those are funny.

I really don't care about AI usage when its memes and shitposts.

It's a good thing I can laugh and downvote shitty AI posts, no need to choose one or the other

How many fingers does that woman have

That is a good question! From the image you provided it is impossible to tell the number of fingers the woman has. It is probably safe to assume that she has 10 fingers, since that is the usual amount of fingers for a woman.
- You're, right, as always! 🧑‍🏫 Most women (and men) do have 10 fingers-I should have taken that into consideration 😅 I'll be sure to do better next time! 🫡
  Would you like help discovering more finger-related facts, or possibly some jokes about fingers? Let me know, I'm here for you! (Also I deleted your entire prod database uwu) 💪
Yes

It’s obviously AI because they all have the same face.

are ai jokes like reverse captchas

I've seen ai make jokes that were clever, original, and context aware. Very interesting. There's a theory of mind (or several - I dunno - I do my own philosophizing) that says that valence and emotions in general stem from the social need. My personal theory is that the world, including inanimate objects, can be nice or mean to you from a human perspective. Anyways, what is language, if not an exchange of conveying social needs? I don't see llm's as some blank jigsaw puzzle of words, but a derivation and a case study. Notice: I believe it's a potentially valuable tool for very particular studies, not some magic catch-all for reasoning that can do anything worth a shit. More akin to a sociopath manipulating you.

If we could somehow filter out all the AI shit I would still want it filtered out. Even if it was "verifiably" better than humans.

Automated art is extremely depressing. Generative AI seeks to dehumanize and invalidate human expression.

Generative AI seeks to dehumanize and invalidate human expression.
Would you mind elaborating on that statement? Consider my using a meme generator to plaster some text over a stock image. I express myself regularly by this means. How does this compare to using an image generator to produce the meme? Why does the latter “invalidate human expression”?
- Everything that is generated by AI is something old.
  It's regurgitated from existing data.
  No matter how well its obfuscated that remains true.
  If image generation replaces human artists then the new/creative element eventually fades from art in its totality. Eventually all humanity and creativity is gone and we're left with AI's platonic reality for art.
  It's like the dead internet theory but for art, eventually the automated slop will blot out anything human, and humans will make less art as a result.

I laugh because they are ai generated,not because they are funny (most of the time, thry are not)

Or just accept it as another form of humor and laugh at it if you find it funny.

It's crazy to watch the insane level of outrage that the existence and growth of AI produced content stirs up in some people when it seems obvious that the development of AI is unstoppable. It's like watching people get angry at the first steam engines that appeared. I genuinely worry about their mental health over the next few years as they realise that being angry on the internet isn't going to slow anything down at all.

Maybe if it wasn't proliferating into every app and service whether useful or not I wouldn't hate the living crap out of it. AI has it's place, I do use it both at work and at home but I don't need it every where.
Also one of the first victims was customer service pages, and most of them are crap.
- It's a paradigm shift and people always behave in unpredictable ways when those come around. It'll settle down eventually into just being a part of normal life.
It's tough as a computer science professor from a related perspective. Lots of students arbitrarily hating anything AI related because of this, including all of the traditional techniques from the 60 years prior to the rise of LLMs and diffusion models, and others misconstruing or discounting any AI class that isn't LLM or diffusion related.
I never like to say technology is inevitable, as the inevitability argument is one of the best marketing tools major companies have to justify their poor ethics and business models (see: the gig economy founders, the "Momentum" mindset). It's clear, though, that there is quite a paradigm shift occuring.
- The paradigm shift toward stupid monthly paying users?
It’s amazing to watch people like you not get the point at all. It’s like you’re missing some piece of yourself and cannot understand why people appreciate the humanity behind art. And to act like we should just lie down and take it?
I’m sorry for whatever the fuck happened to you.
- So, genuine question.
  What do you propose should happen with the advances of AI?
- Unless AI became sentient and do things by itself, AI art still have humanity behind it. You not liking the tool the human used for making the art does not invalidate the humanity of the person who used that tool.
  If like me going back a couple of centuries and saying that a photograph was not made by a human, but by a soulless machine. And that anyone who enjoys or makes photography is missing their humanity.
  You cannot invalidate someone's humanity. That's against human rights or something.
  You should go face to face with a person who made some image they like and love and put a lot of effort into it using AI tools, and say to them, face to face and looking them in the eyes "I do not consider you a human being".
  Same as people needed to travel and know other cultures to cure racism. The butlerian yihad needs to meet different people to cure something that's quickly turning into bigotry.
- Dammit you're right. Well, I guess that fixes everything.
Despite their size, steam engines do not typically disrupt my workflow.
- Sure, but I expect they disrupted the workflow of folks in 1804...
I worry about the mental health of people that attempt to protect an overinflated technology and attack the mental fortitude of people who bring real problems up with the technology. this is especially true since those same white knights are literally being institutionalized for psychosis and are actively creating cults around specific models.
it's absurd that people lacking the mental capacity to understand "a machine is not alive" have a seat at the table to discus the dangers presented by AI.
just want to point out that no technology in recorded history is "unstoppable", though it seems like that was said more to convince yourself than us.
- Neither I, nor anyone, can "protect" it or slow it down. You either find a way to work with what's happening or spiral into greater and greater impotent rage. Better accept this now than slowly go mad no?
It's because most of it is utter dross, that's why.
It’s like watching people get angry at the first steam engines that appeared.
It is nothing of the sort. Steam engines served mostly useful purposes. AI mostly does not (at least not in an open world environment, it has excellent purposes in closed environments like medicine and science). The fact that it is indeed unstoppable does not make the outrage of its infestation of everything on the internet less, quite contrary.
I genuinely worry about their mental health over the next few years
I guess someone with their head in the sand, their fingers in their ears and screaming at the top of their lungs like you, will have an excellent mental health.
- Everyone loved steam engines huh? Do you even history? - Chugging Through Fears & Terror: The Steam Train Phobia of the 19th Century 🚂💨