According to recent coverage, Datavault AI has teamed up with Rodney’s Comedy Club to pilot live joke-copyrighting and an AI “Laugh Index” during stand-up shows—a digital system that tracks audience laughter, timestamps gag vectors, and automatically copyrights jokes in real time.
Our take:
We’re charmed. Because stand-up has always been part art, part agility, part “did you really hear them laugh?” Now it’s also algorithmic. An AI measuring your punchline and filing paperwork simultaneously is both absurd and delightful.
But we also raise an eyebrow. Comedy thrives on spontaneity—“unmeasured” moments, surprise riffs, and that tiny gasp before the laugh breaks. Will a system obsessed with tracking “Laugh Index = LOL + 0.8” kill the funny? Possibly.
Still: we applaud the glitchy elegance of it. We’ll be tuning in just to see if the AI flags a comedian for “low punchline-efficiency” mid-set. Because that’s the future we signed up for with popcorn.
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