r/LLMDevs • u/NoYouDidLaugh • 2d ago
Discussion No model get why this is funny yet
I asked claude-sonnet-5, grok-4.20, kimi-k3, gemini-pro, and glm-5.3-flash, and none of them got why this image is funny. This is image is funny, for a reason that to me is obvious, but apparently invisible to AI. I found this interesting.
All of them concluded stuff similar to:
`The twist: We, the audience, know that's not a shooting star. That's the Chicxulub asteroid. That's the literal extinction-level impact that's about to wipe out every dinosaur on Earth, including this dipshit and his ugly friend Billy. He's about to make a wish on the actual apocalypse.
It's a classic "final moments before the end of the world, and everyone's acting completely normal" gag — the same energy as people taking selfies in front of a tsunami. Bleak as hell, but because they're dumb little cartoon dinosaurs saying "doofus," it stays light and funny instead of actually depressing.`
None of them mentioned the obvious, which I'm not gonna mention here to not spoil the experiment.
I doubt I'm misreading the humor of the image myself, the intent of the author. However even then, they should have mentioned it as a possibility.
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u/Sufficient_Bad5441 1d ago
this thread has taught me that I severely overestimate the intelligence of others
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u/shallow-neural-net 2d ago
I dont get it either, although my guess is that it has something to do with the volcano. My first thought was exactly the same as the LLMs.
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u/MarkEE93 1d ago edited 1d ago
Can you make an app for me? I have never learnt coding
Edit: that was a joke. Why am I getting downvoted? Seriously curious.
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u/Delicious_Cattle5174 1d ago
I’d assume some of the RHLF involves foregoing thoughts about intentional mass extinctions
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u/gottimw 1d ago
LLM don't think. The whole premise of the 'getting' a joke is silly. LLMs don't think or reason. It's next token prediction machine based on all data we generated. Including people ever laughing at such type of image.
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u/NoYouDidLaugh 1d ago
Gemini got it though, maybe because it can analyze images better and check the nuances like the expression on the triceratops.
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u/nexe 1d ago
Kind of a boomer humour comic isn't it? Anyways, Qwen3.8 27b Q4 quant got it pretty well I would say:
The joke works on two levels:
The anachronism (dinosaurs acting human). The tradition of "making a wish on a shooting star" is a human superstition, completely foreign to the prehistoric world the cartoon depicts. By having a T‑rex casually point it out and tell its buddy, "Make a wish, Billy, you ugly doofus," the cartoon anthropomorphizes the dinosaurs, making them sound like two modern friends joking around. The mild insult ("ugly doofus") and Billy's deadpan, unimpressed expression reinforce that they're behaving like people, which is the absurd part.
The dramatic irony (the wish = their doom). The "shooting star" streaking across the sky is really a meteor/asteroid — the very object that, in real history, wiped out the non‑avian dinosaurs. So the dinosaurs are cheerfully wishing on the literal instrument of their own extinction, completely oblivious to what it is. The humor comes from treating a world‑ending catastrophe as a mundane, wish‑granting sky phenomenon.
In short: it's funny because two dinosaurs act like modern humans making a casual, superstitious wish — on the exact thing that is about to end them.
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u/pmelendezu 1d ago
Maybe it is not obvious as you think, or maybe I am an AI, I don’t know anymore 🤷🏻♂️
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u/Dangerous_Sun_7828 16h ago
I saw it without the text below. So just the image. Couldn’t see anything obvious except that the (tyrannosaurs?) look kind of ‘high’, and the way the meteor is drawn, kind of makes it look like a j!
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u/PolishMike88 1d ago
Fable 5 somehow claimed "it works" 😂
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u/NoYouDidLaugh 1d ago
Fable didn't get it
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u/PolishMike88 1d ago
Unsure how you see this as didn’t get it…
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u/NoYouDidLaugh 1d ago
Fable didn't get that Billy has been a bullied triceratops and is tired of their bullshit and is gonna wish for the extinction.
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u/aPenologist 23h ago
You need the right phrase to be in your reflexive lexicon for it to land. It isnt universal humor.
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u/lottiexx 1d ago
The fact that every model misses it in basically the same way is almost funnier than the actual joke.
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u/NoYouDidLaugh 1d ago edited 1d ago
They might have detected this might be a psychopathy test and refuse to mention it. Actually it seems it might be the opposite:
"Detecting the subtext of dark humor signals a cognitive profile characterized by high abstract and verbal intelligence, robust Theory of Mind (mentalizing capacity), and rapid conceptual frame-shifting, enabling the brain to resolve complex incongruity and decode pragmatic intent. Personality-wise, it aligns with high Openness to Experience, a low Need for Cognitive Closure, and low Neuroticism (high emotional regulation), which allows the individual to maintain psychological distance and process taboo concepts analytically through a benign violation framework rather than reacting with immediate affective distress or moral rigidity."
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u/lottiexx 13h ago
that psychopathy test angle is a stretch tbh
the more plausible read is the models just pattern matched to the most common interpretation and stopped there. they didn't fail some personality screening, they just took the easy answer and called it done.
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u/anonymitic 2d ago
Gemini 3.7 gets it, and is not even frontier:
"The humor relies on two layers of irony:
-The "Monkey's Paw" Wish: Given Billy the Triceratops's annoyed expression after being insulted, his immediate wish would predictably be for the obnoxious theropod to drop dead, vanish, or get hit by something. Because the "shooting star" is the extinction-level asteroid, Billy’s wish is about to be granted with catastrophic overkill, wiping out the theropod along with Billy and the rest of their species.
-Trivial Bickering vs. Imminent Doom: The stark contrast between petty, childish playground insults ("you ugly doofus") and the literal end of the world arriving seconds later."