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‘Are you joking, mate?’ AI doesn’t get sarcasm in non-American varieties of English

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‘Are you joking, mate?’ AI doesn’t get sarcasm in non-American varieties of English

Emily Morter/Unsplash Aditya Joshi, UNSW Sydney In 2018, my Australian co-worker asked me, “Hey, how are you going?”.…

August 1, 2025