@inproceedings{toplyn-amir-2025-ai,
    title = "Can {AI} Make Us Laugh? Comparing Jokes Generated by Witscript and a Human Expert",
    author = "Toplyn, Joe  and
      Amir, Ori",
    editor = "Hempelmann, Christian F.  and
      Rayz, Julia  and
      Dong, Tiansi  and
      Miller, Tristan",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum)",
    month = jan,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/2025.chum-1.8/",
    pages = "71--78",
    abstract = "This study compares the funniness of AI-generated jokes and those written by a professional human joke writer, using audience laughter as a direct measure. Prior research has typically relied on numerical ratings, which have limitations. Our findings show that AI-generated jokes elicited as much laughter as human-crafted ones, indicating that advanced AI joke generators can now produce original jokes on par with those of a professional human comedy writer."
}