{"slug": "show-hn-which-llms-have-the-best-sense-of-humor", "title": "Show HN: Which LLMs have the best sense of humor?", "summary": "A new study from laugh.so tested 16 top LLMs on humor alignment with human preferences, finding that Gemini 3.7 Flash had the best taste at 64%, while laugh.so's own trained judge reached 74%. The study, based on over 100,000 judgments and 1,600 human ratings, also found that model intelligence correlates with humor judgment at +0.42.", "body_md": "What if LLMs were good banter?\n\nWell we tested which LLMs have the best sense of humor.\n\nMore specifically, we tested 16 top LLMs align most with human sense of humor. We ran >100k judgements and got >1.6k human ratings to see where do we agree across clean and dark jokes.\n\nThe main findings:\n\n- Gemini 3.7 Flash has the best taste at 64% although it's really close at the top\n\n- However, we've trained our own judge that reaches 74%\n\n- Humans agree up to ~80%, the other part is subjectivity\n\nOther notes:\n\n- All frontier models have worse taste on dark jokes except Grok (unsurprisingly haha)\n\n- Model intelligence correlates decently (+0.42) with judgement of humor. As many say, humor is a sign of intelligence!\n\nCheck our website to see what humor research is coming next!\n\nFull report here: [https://laugh.so/research/judge-leaderboard](https://laugh.so/research/judge-leaderboard).\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49456215](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49456215)\n\nPoints: 3\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-which-llms-have-the-best-sense-of-humor", "canonical_source": "https://laugh.so/research/judge-leaderboard/", "published_at": "2026-08-26 21:30:09+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-26 21:48:29.186400+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-research"], "entities": ["laugh.so", "Gemini 3.7 Flash", "Grok"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-which-llms-have-the-best-sense-of-humor", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-which-llms-have-the-best-sense-of-humor.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-which-llms-have-the-best-sense-of-humor.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-which-llms-have-the-best-sense-of-humor.jsonld"}}