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The Humorous Hill: A U-shaped Relationship Between Humor and Quality

2026-08-01

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<p>We propose and examine a “Humorous Hill” pattern. The pattern suggests that the output of learning systems will show a U-shaped relationship between humor and quality. We tested the Humorous Hill by using language models to create novel examples of open-ended categories. The language modelsvaried in quality and architecture. Human participants (N = 450) rated the output of the language models for quality (categ...

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10.31234/osf.io/vz3mc_v1
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