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A new study reveals AI-generated memes are funnier than human-made ones on average, but the best memes still come from us. Is AI the future of internet humor?

The international research team from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, LMU Munich in Germany, and TU Darmstadt in Germany set up three test scenarios comparing meme-creation quality.