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You have to put it in context. That stream is/was something very particular.

The AI is terrible at making jokes, so the stream is funny to watch because it's a non-stop torrent of repeated failed attempts at telling jokes.

"Regular" jokes are delivered in the exact same way, with the exact same result. What you are reading as intentional irony and/or sarcasm really is just you projecting your expectations.

There is no way whatsoever to distinguish a self-deprecating joke from the failed delivery of an offensive one. If anything, the latter is more likely than the former, since failed delivery is the norm. (Talking about this stream in particular, not AI-generated humor in general.)




But the AI has no intention.. unless you call the prompt fed to it its intention. You're anthropomorphising it.

The way its output is received is all that matters.


It works the other way around too: We read this is a self-deprecating joke because we are anthropomorphising the author.


> What you are reading as intentional irony and/or sarcasm really is just you projecting your expectations

How did you get this from someone literally repeating what the bot actually said and thinking it seemed 'mild'? Talk about projecting.




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