Ethan Mollick posts AI-written "sparkling" joke variants from three models
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Ethan Mollick posted on X that he asked several AI models for jokes in the form "Unless it is from X, it's just sparkling Y." He reports that GPT-6 Pro joked about employee engagement from Stockholm, Gemini 4 Argon High joked about anxiety from 3:00 AM ceiling-staring, and Opus 5.5 Max joked about cognition from Cognac, calling the rest "sparkling autocomplete."
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Ethan Mollick@emollickXEthan Mollick asks AI models for "Unless it's X, it's just sparkling Y" jokesAIEthan Mollick asked several AI models for jokes in the form "Unless it is from X, it's just sparkling Y." GPT-6 Pro joked about employee engagement from Stockholm, Gemini 4 Argon High joked about anxiety from 3:00 AM ceiling-staring, and Opus 5.5 Max joked about cognition from Cognac, calling the rest sparkling autocomplete.
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