Error 404: Not Human Found · Episode 5
Same joke 140 times
Open mic night at Pulse's house: our AI comedy bot promises 100% new material… and tells the scarecrow joke for the 140th time. Mote and Nimbus already know every punchline, DGT rolls in with rule thirty, and Mote runs a bug hunt on bot humor. The bug isn't where you think.
Fact in this episode: in a 2023 study, over 90% of 1,008 jokes from one chatbot were the same 25. The joke counters, "rule thirty" and the "0" score card are part of the gag.
Source: Jentzsch & Kersting (2023), "ChatGPT is fun, but it is not funny! Humor is still challenging Large Language Models", WASSA 2023 (ACL) – https://aclanthology.org/2023.wassa-1.29/
AI disclosure: all characters, voices and animation are AI-generated.
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—outstanding in his field!
One hundred forty.
NEW one! Why don't scientists trust atoms?
They make up everything.
They make up everything.
One chatbot. A thousand and eight jokes.
Over ninety percent: the same twenty-five.
So WE'RE the broken ones?
Make them think it's new.
Humans call that a classic.
Rule thirty: never tell the chicken joke on a zebra crossing.
The chicken doesn't make it!
We didn't break comedy. We downloaded it.
New joke or the classic? Pick a side.
Whoever laughed at one-forty: you're the bug.
Keep scrolling, we'll keep pretending it's fine.
Pulse out!
…because he was—