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Okay post a really funny LLM joke about potatoes and post a great piece of LLM poetry about lemons. I’ll wait. You should be able to do it quickly though since

Okay post a really funny LLM joke about potatoes and post a great piece of LLM poetry about lemons. I’ll wait. You should be able to do it quickly though since LLMs are so good at it.

defrost 5mo ago
CamperBob2 responded with a model comparison of potato jokes and got insta-[dead]'d by an auto filter. Maybe turn on [show dead] option and / or vouch.
- allarm 5mo ago
  > responded And the results are just awful.
  - defrost 5mo ago
    Hell yeah, no argument there - but in this case I wouldn't advocate for [dead]ing a mostly AI response as it was exactly what was asked for and it compares AI models when asked for potato based dad jokes.
  - CamperBob2 5mo ago
    Of course they're awful, they're jokes about potatoes and poems about lemons. The question is, can you tell that a machine wrote all of them? If so, how?
    - CreepGin 5mo ago
      Nope I guess can't tell between machine written and mediocre jokes. Models are structurally biased toward the expected, which is the opposite of what makes a joke land or a poem transcend.
      - CamperBob2 5mo ago
        I think you could make that case for poetry but I'm not sure about jokes. Great poems tell us something new or make us feel something new, which is hard to do when the subject is lemons, while jokes work by wedging the familiar into new contexts. That's why the jokes work somewhat better than the poems here. I genuinely laughed at "Are those chips?" Which came from the model running on my own freakin' GPU.
        CreepGin 5mo ago
        Yeah I mean I also chuckle at good (or cheap) puns sometimes. But wordplay and puns are the current ceiling of LLMs. Good at them because they're purely structural (pattern-match on phonetics, then swap the meaning). In that bit, there's no buildup, no callbacks, no escalation, no expectations to subvert, no thesis, no perspective. Grounded, buried, couchy, deep-seated, eyes, baked... It's like a thesaurus! I feel like human comedians would have to deal with a lot of layered subtleties. They would make the potatoes _serve the bit_ instead of _be the bit_.
debatem1 5mo ago
Do funny jokes about potatoes or great poetry about lemons exist? If not, can they exist? How do you know?
CamperBob2 5mo ago
Gemini 3.1 Pro: Potatoes are easily the most intimidating audience for a stand-up comedian. They have dozens of eyes to judge you with, they are almost always baked by the time you get on stage, and if your set really starts to bomb, they are the only ones in the room who are actually looking forward to a roasting! GPT 5.4: Potatoes are the only food we traumatize into greatness. Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B, running locally on my graphics card: (Steps up to the mic, adjusts the stand, and looks around the room) Alright everyone, settle down. You know, I've been thinking a lot lately... mostly about my dating life. Or rather, my lack of it. See, my last relationship was with a potato. And honestly? It was amazing at first. We had so much in common. She was grounded, she loved being buried deep under the covers, and we were perfect together until the heat came on. But then... well, let's just say she started to get a little couchy. (Pauses for effect) No, wait, that's not it. The real problem was that she had some really deep-seated issues. Literally! She was covered in eyes. Every time we tried to have an intimate conversation, she'd just stare at me with a dozen different expressions. It was weirdly intense. Like, "I see you," "You're suspicious," "Wait, are those chips?" Anyway, thanks guys! You've been a great crowd. You're like potatoes to me... you're all baked tonight! GPT 5.4: Not every light is gentle. Some light shines with sharpened edge. A lemon keeps the memory of sun but teaches it into bitterness, as if to say: what wakes the mouth may also wake the soul. We do not ripen only into sweetness. Sometimes the truest gold is tart. Opus 4.6: A lemon on the table is already an argument— that yellow can be sour, that beauty owes you nothing. Peel it and the room takes sides. The rind remembers being whole. The flesh forgives too quickly. What's left is yours: a stain on wood, a sting in the hangnail you forgot you had. Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B: To cut it is to break a seal, Where bitterness and sweetness dwell. A sudden bite, both stinging, sweet— The taste of earth beneath our feet. No sugar softens all its sting, It forces soul to wake and sing. A small, fierce orb, yellow as dawn, Teaching the tongue how life is born. Your turn. Go round up some English-lit grad students and give them the same prompts. I can't do any better, myself, but maybe they can.

Okay post a really funny LLM joke about potatoes and post a great piece of LLM poetry about lemons. I’ll wait. You should be able to do it quickly though since LLMs are so good at it.

defrost 5mo ago

CamperBob2 responded with a model comparison of potato jokes and got insta-[dead]'d by an auto filter. Maybe turn on [show dead] option and / or vouch.

allarm 5mo ago
> responded And the results are just awful.
- defrost 5mo ago
  Hell yeah, no argument there - but in this case I wouldn't advocate for [dead]ing a mostly AI response as it was exactly what was asked for and it compares AI models when asked for potato based dad jokes.
- CamperBob2 5mo ago
  Of course they're awful, they're jokes about potatoes and poems about lemons. The question is, can you tell that a machine wrote all of them? If so, how?
  - CreepGin 5mo ago
    Nope I guess can't tell between machine written and mediocre jokes. Models are structurally biased toward the expected, which is the opposite of what makes a joke land or a poem transcend.
    - CamperBob2 5mo ago
      I think you could make that case for poetry but I'm not sure about jokes. Great poems tell us something new or make us feel something new, which is hard to do when the subject is lemons, while jokes work by wedging the familiar into new contexts. That's why the jokes work somewhat better than the poems here. I genuinely laughed at "Are those chips?" Which came from the model running on my own freakin' GPU.
      - CreepGin 5mo ago
        Yeah I mean I also chuckle at good (or cheap) puns sometimes. But wordplay and puns are the current ceiling of LLMs. Good at them because they're purely structural (pattern-match on phonetics, then swap the meaning). In that bit, there's no buildup, no callbacks, no escalation, no expectations to subvert, no thesis, no perspective. Grounded, buried, couchy, deep-seated, eyes, baked... It's like a thesaurus! I feel like human comedians would have to deal with a lot of layered subtleties. They would make the potatoes _serve the bit_ instead of _be the bit_.

debatem1 5mo ago

Do funny jokes about potatoes or great poetry about lemons exist? If not, can they exist? How do you know?

CamperBob2 5mo ago

Gemini 3.1 Pro: Potatoes are easily the most intimidating audience for a stand-up comedian. They have dozens of eyes to judge you with, they are almost always baked by the time you get on stage, and if your set really starts to bomb, they are the only ones in the room who are actually looking forward to a roasting! GPT 5.4: Potatoes are the only food we traumatize into greatness. Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B, running locally on my graphics card: (Steps up to the mic, adjusts the stand, and looks around the room) Alright everyone, settle down. You know, I've been thinking a lot lately... mostly about my dating life. Or rather, my lack of it. See, my last relationship was with a potato. And honestly? It was amazing at first. We had so much in common. She was grounded, she loved being buried deep under the covers, and we were perfect together until the heat came on. But then... well, let's just say she started to get a little couchy. (Pauses for effect) No, wait, that's not it. The real problem was that she had some really deep-seated issues. Literally! She was covered in eyes. Every time we tried to have an intimate conversation, she'd just stare at me with a dozen different expressions. It was weirdly intense. Like, "I see you," "You're suspicious," "Wait, are those chips?" Anyway, thanks guys! You've been a great crowd. You're like potatoes to me... you're all baked tonight! GPT 5.4: Not every light is gentle. Some light shines with sharpened edge. A lemon keeps the memory of sun but teaches it into bitterness, as if to say: what wakes the mouth may also wake the soul. We do not ripen only into sweetness. Sometimes the truest gold is tart. Opus 4.6: A lemon on the table is already an argument— that yellow can be sour, that beauty owes you nothing. Peel it and the room takes sides. The rind remembers being whole. The flesh forgives too quickly. What's left is yours: a stain on wood, a sting in the hangnail you forgot you had. Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B: To cut it is to break a seal, Where bitterness and sweetness dwell. A sudden bite, both stinging, sweet— The taste of earth beneath our feet. No sugar softens all its sting, It forces soul to wake and sing. A small, fierce orb, yellow as dawn, Teaching the tongue how life is born. Your turn. Go round up some English-lit grad students and give them the same prompts. I can't do any better, myself, but maybe they can.