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Standup comedy is meant to be relatable, the best standup material makes fun of the writer's real experiences and/or common experiences of the audience. This is just my hot take, but I think an AI writing standup comedy is and always will be completely soulless because the AI has never experienced anything and is just putting words together that it doesn't even know the significance of, and is doing so purely based on the statistics of how real human standup uses those words. Even with AI acting out standup written by humans, they still don't understand what they're saying and the emotions they supposedly show are still based on statistics. If you find AI standup funny, you have that right, but I personally don't and that's just me.
I think this applies to all forms of art.
I've long held this idea of art vs decoration.
For example, my kitchen table has turned legs with a series of convex and concave details along their length. This is not art, it is decoration. It's unnecessary and merely added a few lengthy steps to the manufacture of the table, but it's there to look nice. and I think AI can manage that.
I have on my walls a series of lithographs from an artist by the name of Ed Berger, who spent the majority of his career as a civil engineer in Washington DC before retiring to North Carolina to persue his art...which took the form of a series of rural scenes of old and dilapidated homes and farm buildings/equipment in a style I've taken to calling "It was dreary when it was new, and NOW look at it." I'm not sure a computer can create something that says "100 years ago was completely miserable, which is why we abandoned it so thoroughly" as viscerally ol' Ed did. That's art.