It's the "impressed by the spectacle" one. I tried jokes with LLMs many times, and they're always this. Riffing on a couple of themes loosely related to what was asked. Always unfunny and uncreative.
I found some of those jokes good, definitely better than I would've ever written them. If you watch shows about comedy like say Hacks you'll see human comedians riff on stuff and a lot of the off the top jokes get discarded or improved. So Claude did fine in my book
I wonder, though, whether jokes like these could be useful to professional humorists who have to come up with gags on a deadline. From what I’ve read about monologue writing teams for late-night talk shows and the like, the writers first propose many ideas, most of which are shot down quickly and the remainder of which get tweaked and polished before being used. Some of the above jokes by Claude look to me as though they might serve as good starting points for such brainstorming. At least, they’re better than anything I could create in a short amount of time.
