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This research aims to assess AI's ability to comprehend humor within comics that contain contradictory narratives.

May 2, 2026

When 'YES' Meets 'but': Can AI Comprehend Contradictory Humor in Comics?

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This research aims to assess AI's ability to comprehend humor within comics that contain contradictory narratives.
Introduced YESBUT benchmark with 1,262 comic images from multilingual and multicultural contexts.
Evaluated multiple vision language models through tasks focusing on content comprehension and narrative reasoning.
Implemented text-based training strategies and social knowledge augmentation methods.
AI models showed significant weaknesses in understanding humor compared to humans, particularly in visual perception and key element identification.
Models failed notably in comparative analysis of contradictory narrative elements.
Common issues included hallucinations and incomplete comprehension of cultural expressions.

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Randomized trial evaluates AI's understanding of humor in comics, highlighting challenges in narrative reasoning.

Liang et al. (2026) studied this question.

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