Artificial Intelligence for the Generation of Satirical Articles - An Exploratory Approach

The year 2022 has represented a real technological breakthrough in the creative industry with digital art generators. Particularly notable art generators were Dall-E 2 and Midjourney, which were used to generate the covers of publications such as The Atlantic and The Economist, and Cosmopolitan. This paper aims to explore how this technology can be used in the context of satirical material or internet hoaxes. DailyWrong's articles and Website contents quantitative and qualitative analysis reveals that Artificial Intelligence can be used to generate humorous material, although still in its incipiency.