ChatGPT isn’t funny yet, no matter what the headlines say
USC claims that AI is funnier than human beings. Well, we are standup aficionados at AI Detector Pro and attend several standup shows a year, ranging from Sam Morril to Ronny Chieng and Taylor Tomlinson. Yet, a PLOS ONE study claims that humans are beginning to prefer AI jokes.
Disturbed by these grandiose claims, we took a deeper dive into the study methodology and found ourselves relieved. We found the study flawed in two ways. First, to obtain the results, the study’s authors prompted ChatGPT towards more of a “fill-in-the-blank” joke along the lines of Cards Against Humanity, providing for more outlandish results. Real comedians rely on real-life, relatable observations and practice delivering jokes with stage presence and charisma. Essentially, real stand-up comedy is more of an art form than a joke in a vacuum. Jokes in a vacuum are what ChatGPT managed to produce, not originality.
As usual, the headlines about AI are more hype than anything else. The article also demonstrates that AI is still in an early stage of imitation rather than originality, so you should advocate using it as a tool and subscribe to AI Detector Pro to run detection checks before you submit content assignments.
That said, we did take away some helpful insights for our readers.
Originality is the Key
As noted above, ChatGPT is still imitating instead of writing anything original. ChatGPT is perfect as a grunt research assistant rather than your ghostwriter. Do you need some dates about piracy in the Caribbean during the 1800s? ChatGPT (within your professor’s classroom guidelines) is great for looking up dates and historical characters. AI Detector Pro is great at catching any spare words that trigger an outdated academic detector or evaluating whether you went too far in using ChatGPT’s help to rephrase a complicated sentence. Integrating Captain Jack Sparrow references? That’s on you, reader!
To Persuade Educators, YOU need more originality than ChatGPT
We’ve always made it a point to note that we approve of the use of AI as a tool. If you want to change minds and hearts, you need to come to the table with more than an “Ok Boomer” attitude. Talk to educators about what they consider intellectual work regarding research. To be persuasive, you need to know what they think. If you are respectful about it, they’ll likely open up and tell you how technological advances helped them become better researchers. You can read our perspective across our entire blog content.
If they don’t budge, be your authentic self in your writing
Again, you need to read the room on this one, but if you have a subscription to our platform, use AI like a tool, and check your work before you submit it, you should be fine. Why do we say you still need a subscription? Because many new technologies have integrated AI algorithms, running a last check and humanizing before handing anything in is best.
Also, if it’s appropriate, add a joke. Just make it original.
Questions you can ask as a student (respectfully!)
- What do you consider to be non-critical/non-thinking work when we are doing research for a paper?
- How did technological advances help you do non-critical work more quickly?
- How do you assess originality in research and writing?
- Does the university have a citation method for ChatGPT (only if they/the professor allow you to use it)?