Comment by edg5000
2 days ago
> for example it does that annoying thing gemini does now where when you use slang or really any informal terms it puts them in quotes in its reply
Haven´t used Gemini much, but the time I used it, it felt very academic and theoretical compared to Opus 4. So that seems to fit. But I'll have to do more evaluation of the non-Claude models to get a better idea of the differences.
All this points to "personality" being a big -- and sticky -- selling point for consumer-facing chat bots. People really did like the chatty, emoji-filled persona of the previous ChatGPT models. So OpenAI was ~forced to adjust GPT-5 to be closer to that style.
It raises a funny "innovator's dilemma" that might happen. Where an incumbent has to serve chatty consumers, and therefore gets little technical/professional training data. And a more sober workplace chatbot provider is able to advance past the incumbent because they have better training data. Or maybe in a more subtle way, chatbot personas give you access to varying market segments, and varying data flywheels.