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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Can AI Make Us Laugh? Comparing Jokes Generated by Witscript and a Human Expert
%A Toplyn, Joe
%A Amir, Ori
%Y Hempelmann, Christian F.
%Y Rayz, Julia
%Y Dong, Tiansi
%Y Miller, Tristan
%S Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum)
%D 2025
%8 January
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Online
%F toplyn-amir-2025-ai
%X This study compares the funniness of AI-generated jokes and those written by a professional human joke writer, using audience laughter as a direct measure. Prior research has typically relied on numerical ratings, which have limitations. Our findings show that AI-generated jokes elicited as much laughter as human-crafted ones, indicating that advanced AI joke generators can now produce original jokes on par with those of a professional human comedy writer.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.chum-1.8/
%P 71-78

Markdown (Informal)

[Can AI Make Us Laugh? Comparing Jokes Generated by Witscript and a Human Expert](https://aclanthology.org/2025.chum-1.8/) (Toplyn & Amir, chum 2025)

• Can AI Make Us Laugh? Comparing Jokes Generated by Witscript and a Human Expert (Toplyn & Amir, chum 2025)

ACL

• Joe Toplyn and Ori Amir. 2025. Can AI Make Us Laugh? Comparing Jokes Generated by Witscript and a Human Expert. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum), pages 71–78, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.