None of these memes are funny
The article Study finds AI-generated meme captions funnier than human ones on average by Benj Edwards (Ars Technica) describes what it says on the tin. As several others confirmed in the comments, the memes all suck, whether generated by an AI, a human, or a combination.
Here is a sheet of the “winners.”
They are uniformly terrible, at best confusing. Not one is funny.
For example, this is apparently a meme written by an actual human being.
“Threw something into the trash can.. Hit it first try.”
WTF. That is not even cringe-worthy.
Here’s a robot one, with the same fist-pumping baby.
“Fridge was empty…found ice cream hidden in the back!”
That makes no sense. It’s f@&king terrible.
The rest are just as bad. They would be terrible T-shirts, terrible postcards, … they are objectively terrible and unfunny memes. This entire study is garbage.
People will read the headline and tell all of their co-workers that AIs are funnier than humans now—all without having looked at a single meme to see if any of them are actually funny.