Chatbots are increasingly applied to domains previously reserved for human actors. One such domain is comedy, whereby both the general public working with ChatGPT and research-based LLM-systems have tried their hands on making humor. In formative interviews with professional comedians and video analyses of stand-up comedy in humans, we found that human performers often use their ethnic, gender, community, and demographic-based identity to enable joke-making. This suggests whether the identity of AI itself can empower AI humor generation for human audiences. We designed a machine-identity-based agent that uses its own status as AI to tell jokes in online performance format. Studies with human audiences (N=32) showed that machine-identity-based agents were seen as funnier than baseline-GPT agent. This work suggests the design of human-AI integrated systems that explicitly utilize AI as its own unique identity apart from humans.

翻译：聊天机器人正日益应用于先前仅由人类演员主导的领域。喜剧便是其中之一，无论是公众使用ChatGPT还是研究型LLM系统，都已尝试进行幽默创作。通过对专业喜剧演员的初步访谈及对人类单口喜剧的视频分析，我们发现人类表演者常利用其种族、性别、社群及人口统计学特征的身份特质来构建笑点。这引发了思考：AI自身的身份特质是否也能增强其为人类观众创造幽默的能力？为此，我们设计了一种基于机器身份的智能体，使其在在线表演形式中利用自身作为AI的身份特性来讲述笑话。针对人类观众的研究（N=32）表明，基于机器身份的智能体被认为比基线GPT智能体更具趣味性。本研究为设计人机融合系统提供了新思路，即明确将AI作为独立于人类的独特身份加以利用。