AI is only creative when it's messing up. Guide rails are basically the opposite to the subversive nature of jokes, so the only time it can make with the funny is by falling off the rails

(or lifting some comedians work, but I'm not counting that as the AI's creation of course)

See also: Will Smith eating spaghetti

It had help, to be fair. XD

I get you yourself are making a joke, but I’d argue that to “create a joke”, you have to understand that’s what you’re doing and have that as a goal. Being made fun of (like in this case) is a different matter and requires no skill or creativity.

To your metric, I remember in “the early days” someone posted to HN claiming ChatGPT could make jokes as proof of something (creativity? sentience? I forget). Of course, with just a minute of research (which the poster obviously neglected to do) it was obvious none of the jokes were original and all could be found online.