Have you compared your perplexity and ChatGPT responses?

Which AI tool is giving you more useful responses


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Renegade

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In general I have noticed that Perplexity is giving more generic responses which are more like a refined search engine output. It is not really diving deeper into the context and history to give more tailored useful responses, leaving work to be done by the user.

Even with GPT 4.o model selected the quality of responses was generally inferior compared to what I am getting on ChatGPT native tool. It was rather surprising. Is it because GPT is building your profile in the backend and using that also as a context?

Not saying that perplexity is not good or useful, just lesser.

People who have used both, how has your experience been?
 
Is it because GPT is building your profile in the backend and using that also as a context?

gpt seems to use your entire history as context in any isolated instance, which makes its responses feel more tailored – though it will deny doing so if you ask

perplexity's responses lack the personalized depth that comes from integrating previous conversations, it tends to stay more agnostic that way – they may seem suited for different applications, but i find myself going back to gpt every time i try perplexity way more than the other way around
 
but i find myself going back to gpt every time i try perplexity way more than the other way around
This is exactly it. I dont want to delete the chats and the responses to not be tailored.

Its nice that I dont have to play 50 first dates with the chatbot before I can get something meaningful done. So perplexity is not that great from that perspective.
 
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I typically use Perplexity when I need to ensure that the information I receive is completely accurate and supported by reliable sources. In contrast, ChatGPT excels at content writing and creation, although it may sometimes fall short in terms of accuracy.
 
This is exactly it. I dont want to delete the chats and the responses to not be tailored.

Its nice that I dont have to play 50 first dates with the chatbot before I can get something meaningful done. So perplexity is not that great from that perspective.
have you tried perplexity's writing mode? It bypasses the extra steps that perplexity does
 
I think, for my use case, Perplexity generates better responses. ChatGPT is good to create large content but Perplexity is good for research and knowledge gathering.

I have found Perplexity's source citation to be more accurate and helpful.

The idea of Spaces in Perplexity is also very helpful. We can tailor each space for particular use cases. I tend to isolate each space for different type of study. Lack of interconnect between different spaces helps maintain a degree of agnosticism in response, which I feel is necessary for unbiased answers.

Additionally, each space can be further customised with prompts and documents. Say, I upload one or more documents in one space and ask questions about the document/s in different context windows within that space. It helps so much with rapid analysis of the document/s.
 
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What is this mode, what does it do and how do I turn it on/off?
There is a mode change menu on bottom left of chatbox ( on desktop ) with an icon of three horizontal lines and same on mobile but in top right

Modes change how perplexity tackles the prompt , for example writing mode pretty much responds without any extra live web search and academic mode will query academic databases / sites to add context
 

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Perplexity works differently.

When you ask something on it,
  1. the first thing it'll do is rephrase your question to improve it, it'll probably add necessary details which are related to the context. Some AI is used at this step.
  2. Then it'll locate sources. I don't think an AI is used at this step.
  3. And, then it'll use AI like ChatGPT, Claude, to synthesize an answer for you out of those sources.

BTW, Claude 3.5 sonnet > ChatGPT 4o
 
I think, for my use case, Perplexity generates better responses. ChatGPT is good to create large content but Perplexity is good for research and knowledge gathering.

I have found Perplexity's source citation to be more accurate and helpful.

The idea of Spaces in Perplexity is also very helpful. We can tailor each space for particular use cases. I tend to isolate each space for different type of study. Lack of interconnect between different spaces helps maintain a degree of agnosticism in response, which I feel is necessary for unbiased answers.

Additionally, each space can be further customised with prompts and documents. Say, I upload one or more documents in one space and ask questions about the document/s in different context windows within that space. It helps so much with rapid analysis of the document/s.
If you are a power perplexity user then do try complexity extension for perplexity , it will improve your spaces experience