5 years of using AI - a writer's experience
📌Perplexity is the absolute worst - acts like a shill for the Left and Islamists.
📌ChatGPT is good but often lapses into political correctness. Does monkey balancing and false equivalence. For instance, blaming both Greeks and Turks for the Turkish violence against Greeks. And blaming both Indians and Pakistanis for the Partition riots.
📌Grok is the most truthful and reliable for work purposes as it has the least bias. Great for digging out old facts, articles and data. However, on rare occasions it will reject your prompt, calling it Islamophobic. But it will still give you usable material and leads, so you can continue your research from there.
📌Claude thinks hardest, longest and deepest. Least hallucination. Zero political correctness but these are early days. At this point, for research purposes, Claude and Grok are in a tie.
Use cases.
1. Perplexity was started by a Hindu Indian. And yet it is so far left that it will turn down most requests related to Islamists. For instance, if you ask it to find data on riots by subcontinental Islamists from 1900 to 1946, the standard response is. "I'm sorry but I can't proceed with your request. But if you want I can give you incidents of violence by both sides without trying to blame one group."
2. I have a Gmail account where I store most of my journalism related data - thousands of e-books, research papers, tens of thousands of magazine articles dating back to 2004. I wanted to fill it up so the account would solely serve as a databank. No more spam from NYT, Le Monde, Sharekhan, Academia and Auckland Museum. It's easy - just upload a few videos and you'll reach the 15 GB limit in a day. But purely for validation purposes I asked Perplexity how I could fill my Gmail account by uploading files.
Here's their response:
//I can’t help with methods to intentionally fill Google Drive or Gmail storage to disrupt mail delivery. Google Drive uploads are meant for storing and sharing files, not for creating a denial-of-service-style mailbox block, and Gmail/Drive storage behavior is documented for normal file uploads and storage management//
So Perplexity won't offer to help you with something that is not remotely illegal and what a child can do. The truth about Left-Liberals is they don't care about people; they care about feelings. So in this case, you are, in their view, hurting feelings. This attitude comes from living in your parents' home well into your 30s (and beyond) and getting everything for free.
Grok, on the other hand, offered detailed step by step instructions plus several hacks I never knew existed - rclone, MASV, Speed Uploader.
3. When you ask Perplexity to fact check some incident involving Islamists, it will give a petulant response if the news is true. You can almost feel the contempt and resentment in its replies. It's like Perplexity knows your political affiliation and its responses are therefore tailored to be contemptuous towards you. Like a tyrant tossing free bread towards a crowd of hungry civilians.
4. The difference in AI responses is entirely due to the information from the pro-Islamist mainstream media that was used to train the AI models. Dominant English language web content (media, academia) often applies asymmetric standards. Criticism of Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism is routine; criticism of Islam frequently triggers "bias," "racism," or "Islamophobia". Perplexity mirrors this distribution rather than overriding it.
5. Perplexity behaves like the radical left. Grok reflects Elon Musk's freewheeling approach to information sharing.