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I mean, I'm sure they can tell you good jokes... they just won't be _new_ jokes.

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Define _new_.

I just think that the difficulty with jokes is the delivery, cadence & setting. Not the actual words.

I'm sure a good comedian can tell a nonsense joke and make "everyone" laugh their heads off.

And I don't get the sense that you are referring to this part of jokes but rather the actual words.

Why are you asking someone to define "new". It means exactly what it appears to mean and exactly what it always means.

Read the sentence and take it literally.

Jesus Christ.

Because I'm actually curious if they mean "new" as in "a new knock-knock joke" (which imo is a quite small step especially if you are allowed to screen all attempts and only publish the ones that work) or as "a new kind of joke or way of telling a joke" (which is a giant step especially if it's told live without pre-screening by a human).

I'm all for dismissing LLMs and the AI-hype but I'm also interested in trying to understand what it means to be human and I think humour is a key aspect.

The jokes I posted in this thread are new, to the best of my knowledge. Can you show that they're not?

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