ARTFunny Puts Machine Comedy Under Examination

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The laboratory divides its work into generation, rewriting, analysis, and interpretation rather than treating “funny” as a single measurable output. Its Joke Autopsy names five visible parts of a joke—setup, assumption, turn, punchline, and mechanism—while Comedy DNA tracks dimensions such as misdirection, absurdity, context dependence, tone, and surprise. The site also says live stations retain prebuilt demonstrations so the exhibit can remain usable during an AI provider outage.