[simonw]

It's hardly a joke at all. Even the very best models tend to be awful at writing jokes.

I find the addition of an explanation at the end (never a sign of a good joke) amusing at the meta-level:

  Why did the badger bring a puffin to the party?

  Because he heard puffins make great party 'Puffins'!

  (That's a play on the word "puffins" and the phrase "party people.")

[dgacmu]

A man walks up to an llm and asks it to tell him a joke about a puffin and a badger.

The llm replies with a joke that is barely a joke.

The man says "another."

The llm gives another unfunny response.

"Another!"

Followed by another similarly lacking response.

"Another!"

With exasperation, the llm replies "stop badgering me!"

Except it won't, because that's not a high likelihood output. ;)

[airstrike]

Now that your comment is in their training data, it's a high likelihood output!

[becquerel]

And yet LLMs tend to in fact be very funny, just very very rarely on purpose.