Humor in ChatGPT
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Explores ChatGPT's capabilities to grasp and reproduce humor.
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Joke repetition: Over 90% of 1,008 generated jokes were the same 25 jokes - revealing extreme mode collapse in humor generation.
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Structural overfitting: ChatGPT is overfit to particular joke structures (e.g., "Why did X? Because Y") and struggles with diverse humor styles.
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Humor comprehension: While generation is limited, ChatGPT can explain joke structure and recognize humor - showing a partial understanding.
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Creativity evaluation: An influential paper in the creativity-evaluation literature, documenting specific failures of LLM creative generation.