# Jokegen

> Teaching 1T parameters to be funny

Published: 2026/01/30 • Author: Surya Dantuluri • Canonical: https://sdan.net/projects/jokegen

I scraped 200,000 tweets, around 10,000 hours of TikTok videos, and hundreds of hours of standup sketches to post-train a 1 trillion parameter model.

I used rubric RL to have 8 judges score rollouts from Kimi K2 based on the rubric and upsampled the best jokes that satisfied the rubric.

Unexpectedly, it also typically scores as 0% on Pangram, one of the more popular AI detectors.

[more to come]