<story><title>Meet “Claude”: Anthropic’s rival to ChatGPT</title><url>https://scale.com/blog/chatgpt-vs-claude</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>They say Claude is &amp;quot;more verbose&amp;quot;, and claim this is a positive. I disagree. My biggest criticism of ChatGPT is that its answers are extraordinarily long and waffly. It sometimes reminds me of a scam artist trying to bamboozle me with words.&lt;p&gt;I would much prefer short, concise, precise answers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>goodside</author><text>(I’m the coauthor of the post.) Before I talked to Claude, I would have agreed with you — I’ve had exactly this complaint about ChatGPT since its release. But Claude’s style of verbosity is somehow less annoying, I suspect because it contains more detail rather thus just waffling. Claude feels less prone to ChatGPT’s over-applied tendency to argue for middle-of-the-road, milquetoast points of view.</text></comment>
<story><title>Meet “Claude”: Anthropic’s rival to ChatGPT</title><url>https://scale.com/blog/chatgpt-vs-claude</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>They say Claude is &amp;quot;more verbose&amp;quot;, and claim this is a positive. I disagree. My biggest criticism of ChatGPT is that its answers are extraordinarily long and waffly. It sometimes reminds me of a scam artist trying to bamboozle me with words.&lt;p&gt;I would much prefer short, concise, precise answers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Roark66</author><text>I just add &amp;quot;be succinct in your answer&amp;quot; when I want a less verbose answer.</text></comment>