Challenge: Moreover, irony is highly subjective and can depend on various factors, such as social, cultural, or generational aspects.
Approach: They propose to fine-tune two large language models to generate ironic and non-ironic content and analyze their outputs from a linguistic perspective.
Outcome: The proposed models generate ironic and non-ironic responses to a given social media post and analyze their outputs from a linguistic perspective.

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