alt Hacker NewsYes and nowadays no one would even bother put in that much effort. They would have an AI generate the box art and the jokes. The jokes wouldn't even be funny, but no one would care because "human jokes aren't usually funny."
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It depends on what the joke is. I can see people making an image for a joke that they already have in their head. Or they can AI generate an image and think up with a caption to make whatever it generated is funny (partially clips does exactly this with clipart). Sometimes it can be completely AI generated because the humour comes from seeing how the model misconstrued what it was supposed to do. A lot of these require humans to do the work of curation.
I'd be kind of tempted to give these box art images to an AI and ask it to make the game. I suspect there would be much amusement to be had in seeing how they do at a cursed task like that.
Exception: Gwern's AI-assisted cartoons include some funny ones. https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/humor/comics/index (scroll down)
tbh, there is some novelty when AI first imitates a distinct human style. And then it gets old immediately after not unlike when VC Twitter discovered AI could imitate Studio Ghibli art.
I wish we were still in the "haha funny" era of AI, and we could laugh at the absurdity it came up with. Fun times.
One of my favorites: https://www.reddit.com/r/DC_Cinematic/comments/i3kr2z/humor_...