"I regret to announce that the meme Turing Test has been passed," said Wharton professor Ethan Mollick of the study. "LLMs produce funnier memes than the average human, as judged by humans.

A new study finds that AI-generated memes are now rated funnier than those made by most humans, signaling a major leap in AI's creative capabilities—though the best human memers still hold the edge.