A Robot Walks into a Bar: Can Language Models Serve asCreativity Support Tools for Comedy? An Evaluation of LLMs' Humour Alignment with Comedians

arXiv:2405.20956v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We interviewed twenty professional comedians who perform live shows in front of audiences and who use artificial intelligence in their artistic process as part of 3-hour workshops on ``AI x Comedy'' conducted at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2023 and online. The workshop consisted of a comedy writing session with large language models (LLMs), a human-computer interaction questionnaire to assess the Creativity Support Index of AI as a writing tool, and a focus group …

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