iamtrask: AI can't master humor from public data alone — the punchline needs shared lived experience
iamtrask · x · 2026-10-11
iamtrask argues AI labs won't crack humor by training on public data alone: humor works when many people silently feel the same thing and someone finally says it out loud.
What models might 'solve' is reading world events and translating them into audience-specific humor — and maybe user logs could help — but a real solution would require ongoing surveillance of the world, the way comedians wander for inspiration or journalists travel for stories.
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