Ask AI to Be Funny. It Can’t.
In just 36 months, AI went from obscure to cute party trick, to Google killer, to humanity changer.
It’s now the most searched, most talked-about, most misunderstood thing on the internet. Your dad’s using ChatGPT. Your manager is using it to write performance reviews. And you? You’re probably using it right now to write an email that sounds enthusiastic but is actually dead inside.
AI has become useful. Like, terrifyingly useful.
Spreadsheets? Handled.
Emails? Automated.
Design? One prompt away.
Research? Instant.
PowerPoint? Dead.
AI can replace a lot of things. But not you.
If you ask AI a subjective question, it’s answer just feels wrong. You know it was AI written, but you probably have a hard time saying why. That's because humans have emotions. And our emotion tells us “this feels wrong.” We can't describe why we know this because emotion is unpredictable. But we can feel it. And when we feel it, we know it. And when we know it, we don't trust it.
Ask AI to tell you a joke. It will, but it won’t be funny.
Humour is instinctual.
It’s timing. It’s tone. It’s reading the room and knowing this is the moment to make a joke. It’s knowing which audience wants irony and which doesn’t. We know the line. That thing that’s just a bit over the edge to make something uncomfortably funny?
AI will never know that.
AI doesn’t read a room.
AI can’t set up a misdirect.
AI doesn’t feel tension.
AI doesn’t clock the tension in a room.
Humour—the real, funny, cry-level humor—lives in the space between what’s said and what’s meant. It’s built on irony, context, subtlety, and emotion.
AI reads emotion it like a manual. Word for word. Monotone.
Humans feel it. We invent it. We weaponize it. We drown in it. That’s the line AI can’t cross.
AI Knows Everything But Humans Know Why It Matters.
AI has digested every sentence ever written on the internet.
It’s the most objective tool ever built by the most subjective species on Earth.
It can tell you what comes next in a sentence.
It can’t tell you why you cried at a song.
It can write a wedding toast.
But it can’t choke up delivering it.
Because humans don’t just create word sequences. We create meaning.
And meaning isn’t predicted—it’s felt. It’s inconsistent. It’s irrational. It’s messy. It’s dumb. It gives you energy, and it gives you chills.
No matter how many LLMs you train, they will never understand heartbreak.
We are witnessing the automation of mediocrity. Let AI write the “to whom it may concern” emails so we can cry-laugh more at stupid jokes that require so much context that they’re only funny to you and your best friend.
So don’t worry - AI won’t replace you, but it will enable you to become more you.
