{"id":17456,"date":"2026-06-09T03:53:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T03:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/?p=17456"},"modified":"2026-06-09T03:53:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T03:53:46","slug":"llms-understand-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/llms-understand-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"LLMs understand humor."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\ud83c\udfa8 Turns out LLMs can be funny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I gave three different AI models the same prompts \u2014 draw a developer at 3am, a cat on a Roomba, Einstein arguing with Newton \u2014 and collected the results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No model names. No rankings. Just ASCII art and whatever passes for a sense of humor when you have no eyes and were trained on the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some results are surprisingly good. Some are gloriously bad. 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