The article <a href="https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-beats-humans-at-meme-humor-but-the-best-joke-is-still-human-made/" author="Benj Edwards" source="Ars Technica">Study finds AI-generated meme captions funnier than human ones on average</a> 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." <img src="{att_link}top_memes_from_study.jpg" href="{att_link}top_memes_from_study.jpg" align="none" caption="Top memes from study" scale="45%"> They are uniformly terrible, at best confusing. Not one is funny. For example, this is apparently a meme written by an actual human being. <bq>Threw something into the trash can.. Hit it first try.</bq> WTF. That is not even cringe-worthy. Here's a robot one, with the same fist-pumping baby. <bq>Fridge was empty...found ice cream hidden in the back!</bq> 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.