1134 – Not All AIs Are The Same: Tom talks Why I Quit ChatGPT

SUMMARY BY CHATGPT

Tom Antion explains that he has not completely abandoned ChatGPT, but he has stopped using it for long-form book writing and editing, switching instead to Claude AI for that specific purpose.
Key Points
1. ChatGPT helped with planning the book
Tom uploaded Version 3.0 of his book How to Automate Your Business into ChatGPT and asked it to:
• Analyze the existing content
• Suggest outdated material to remove
• Recommend new material to add
• Create an expanded chapter outline
He says ChatGPT performed well at this stage and generated about 30 chapter ideas and other useful suggestions.
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2. The problem: "Drift" in long documents
Tom's main criticism is that ChatGPT gradually lost consistency while helping write a long book.
He had previously created a custom "writing brain" based on samples of his own writing style. Initially, ChatGPT followed that style well, but as the book grew:
• The writing became less like his voice
• Formatting changed unexpectedly
• Paragraph structure deteriorated
• The content drifted away from the original instructions
He describes the final chapters as sounding nothing like him and claims the model increasingly relied on short paragraphs and excessive bullet points.
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3. Claude maintained consistency
To test alternatives, Tom subscribed to Claude and imported:
• His custom writing profile
• His Version 3.0 book
• The new chapter outline
• The work already produced in ChatGPT
He found that Claude maintained his writing style consistently from beginning to end and did not suffer from the same "drift" problem.
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4. AI-detection testing
Tom used a tool called QuillBot's AI detector to evaluate the chapters.
According to his testing:
• Early ChatGPT-generated chapters appeared more "human-written."
• Later chapters increasingly triggered AI-writing indicators.
• He often had to manually paraphrase sections to reduce AI-detection scores.
He found this process tedious and time-consuming.
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5. Claude improved formatting and document management
Tom reports that Claude quickly:
• Reformatted the entire manuscript
• Organized chapters and paragraphs
• Prepared the book for editing
• Extracted images from the previous edition
• Created notes about which graphics were obsolete and which should be retained
He emphasizes that he still personally reviews everything for accuracy, adds his own stories, and removes hallucinations or poor content.
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6. ChatGPT still excels at images
Although he switched to Claude for writing, Tom praises ChatGPT's image-generation capabilities.
He specifically mentions using ChatGPT's image model to create a new book cover from a single prompt and says the results were excellent.
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Tom's Final Conclusion
Use the right AI for the job.
His view is:
Task Preferred Tool
Brainstorming ChatGPT
Book planning ChatGPT
Image generation ChatGPT
Long-form writing Claude
Long-form editing Claude
Maintaining writing style across large documents Claude
He concludes that Claude significantly outperforms ChatGPT for long manuscripts because it maintains a consistent voice and formatting throughout an entire book without drifting from the original instructions.
Takeaway for You
As someone who writes technical documentation, club newsletters, website content, and educational, the practical lesson is:
• ChatGPT remains excellent for ideation, research assistance, code generation, troubleshooting, graphics, and shorter articles.
• Claude may be worth evaluating if you're producing very large documents (50+ pages), manuals, books, or projects where maintaining a consistent voice across hundreds of pages is critical.
That said, both tools have evolved rapidly, and performance can vary considerably depending on the specific model version and prompting method being used.

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Episode1134WhyIQuitChatGPTFinal.mp3
[00:00:08] Welcome to Screw the Commute. The entrepreneurial podcast dedicated to getting you out of the car and into the money, with your host, lifelong entrepreneur and multimillionaire, Tom Antion.
[00:00:24] Hey everybody, it's Tom here with episode 1134 of Screw the Commute podcast. Today I'm going to talk about why I quit ChatGPT. And then you can visualize three dots dot, dot, dot, right? At least for one specific thing. All right, hope you didn't miss episode 1133. That was a really cool email trick that I'll let you know who's spamming you and who, uh, who released your email and sold it and all those kinds of things. So that's episode 1133. Anytime you want to get to a back episode, you go to screwthecommute.com/1133 for that email trick. Today's is 1134. All right. Pick up a copy of my automation book at screwthecommute.com/automatefree. And this is in part what this episode is about because I'm working on version 4.0. Don't feel bad about downloading 3.0 because I'm just adding to it pretty much. There's very little I'll be taking out of it, but version 4.0 come out soon, but you can get started right away on 3.0 at screwthecommute.com/automatefree and check out my mentor program, greatinternetmarketingtraining.com and my school at IMTCVA.org, certified to operate by SCHEV. Okay. Oh, one more thing. Don't forget, it really would be one of the best uses of an hour of your time. Uh! Oh, there's my ka ching! Gotta turn that off to watch and take notes on my AI. Master class, we're going to put the link in the show notes for you.
[00:02:14] But this thing will blow your mind on the things that you can do with AI as a non-techie. I mean, you'll be able to do this stuff immediately and fix up pictures, create unique pictures and videos. And for pennies, I'm talking, I got a book cover for $0.03 in about 30s and it's gorgeous. In fact, you can download it the after you watch the The masterclass on YouTube, it'll give you a link to download the entire notes plus bonus notes. It's all free on how to make sure your websites show up when people are looking in chat for things. All right. So anyway, check that out after this episode. Okay. So what part of ChatGPT did I quit? All right. Drum roll. Okay. Well, it was the long form writing part of it. And lots of people in the past couple months have been saying, oh, we use Claude because it's better in writing. So I decided, well, I'm going to test this. So when I went to upgrade my automate free book, How to Automate Your Business to version 4.0, I said, okay, I'm going to figure this out. I'm going to figure out, okay, who is really better and why. So I uploaded the 3.0 book to ChatGPT to evaluate it and to suggest what I should add, because it's been, I don't know, a year or more since I got version 3.0 And what I should get rid of that maybe is getting a little obsolete.
[00:04:04] And then I had it suggest chapters, and it came up with 30 chapters and new stuff and all that was good. That was very good. I already had my writing brain created. This is where I think I've done this on previous episodes, where you upload all kinds of samples of your writing and it evaluates it and then writes future stuff in your style. Yeah, for short stuff that's working great in ChatGPT, you don't have to worry about it. However, the Automate Free Book is quite a long book, and here's where things kind of went downhill a little bit. And I got to explain the concept of drift to you. So on long documents, the ChatGPT hasn't evolved to the point where it doesn't do a thing called drift. So in the beginning, it was using my writing brain and my style of the things that I've uploaded, and starting to assist in writing the first part of the book. But then every chapter that went by, things started going downhill. Okay. It was drifting off of its initial instructions till near the end of the book. It was like pee Wee Herman wrote it. I don't know if it was not me anymore, and I had told it to make my stuff book style, and it kept making.
[00:05:45] At the beginning it was paragraphs and then it started drifting to making just one sentence paragraphs. It was like a million bullets. Okay, terrible. You couldn't read, read a thing like that. So I said, okay, well, this is a good test to, for me to, uh, switch to Claude. So I went and got Claude. Now I'm, you know, I'm okay with money. So, you know, it's no problem for me to spend 20 bucks for a month of Claude. So I don't know if you had if I had to spend 20. But I did, because there's a long, long book. Now, I want what Claude is known for is it keeps your brain, whatever you tell it, style wise, throughout long documents and books. So I ask it to. How do I get the brain that I killed myself to create from ChatGPT into you? And it was happy to tell me. So it was pretty easy. So I had to copy some stuff from ChatGPT and paste it in a certain place. And Claude, It'll tell you how to do it any time. It's like a hosting service. You know, they're happy to tell you how to get out of another one and come to them, but they're trying to get them to tell you how to get out of them and go somewhere else. It's not as easy. Anyway, so I got my brain in there and then I imported my upload, or I uploaded my 3.0 version to give it the latest thing that we're working on.
[00:07:26] And I uploaded the 30 chapters and the intro that I had been working on from ChatGPT. And by the way, before I get off totally on Claude in ChatGPT, I had to go chapter by chapter, 30 chapters, plus an intro, copy the text, paste it into Quillbot, which is an AI text analyzer to make sure that it didn't look like AI written. All right. There's rules for that that I had uploaded to ChatGPT. And so as I was going through the 30 chapters, the first some, a bunch of them was, oh, 0% AI written 100% human written. And then it started getting off the rails as we, we, we went through to the later chapters. And so, so yeah, it was drifting on me. And plus it was a pain in the neck to go chapter by chapter. It was a monotonous and a pain and, you know, and then if it was off and looked like, you know, 90% human and 10% AI, then I had to go back and click the paraphrase button and, and keep going back and forth and changing phraseology that, you know, AI usually throws in just a lot of hassle. So I stuck the whole thing into Claude and it went through immediately.
[00:09:00] And I told it, hey, I need this thing to read. It's going to be an ebook. It went through bam, bam, bam, bam bam. And I don't know, it was less than 30s. It had reformatted the whole book. Beautiful chapters, beautiful paragraphs, and kind of getting ready for me to go and do my thing on it, because I'm never going to just turn out something that's that AI created. I'm always going to go through and put my stories, my experience, and throw out stuff that's BS or hallucinations and all that stuff. So it did all that. And then I, I said, oh, you know what? There's a lot of graphics from version 3.0 that I could use in 4.0. So I said extract all the photographs. This is called file extraction, which I have taught you about in the AI masterclass that you need to download and spend an hour with. And so it extracted all the photos and put them in a folder. And I said, also put a notepad in there or a note in there to tell me which photos are probably obsolete that I had to get rid of and which ones I should keep. All right. So, so that's where I'm at right now in the editing process. Now I'm going chapter to chapter, reading through the whole book. You know, it's a lot of the phraseology that I use from the previous book on certain sections.
[00:10:27] And then I'm adding stuff and subtracting stuff, and then I'm going to go through and the next thing I'm going to ask Claude to do, I'm going to save all my work in a file. So in case it messes up, and then I'm going to ask it to review what I have and suggest subheadings, because there are currently there's no subheadings in the book, and that makes it for much easier reading and to organize it a little better. And so that's the next step I'm going to use Claude for. And then I'm going to go through and put my graphics in the rest of my stories, put my copyright page in which it held a placeholder. Oh, I forgot in ChatGPT, I did have it create a new cover for this book. And that's perfect because ChatGPT has upped its game like crazy with the image two model for graphics. So I put in one prompt and boom, boom, boom. It came out with a gorgeous cover, which will be the first page and it's full bleed. That means there's no margins for the first page, and it'll also be a advertisement when I put it up for sale, say this book, say so this all beautiful to this point. So I have to say ChatGPT cannot hold a A candle to Claude. When it comes to writing long documents and reviewing and formatting long documents and keeping your your style through the whole thing.
[00:12:05] So it does not drift. I mean, from the first chapter to the last chapter, it's my style. So that's why I quit ChatGPT for writing long documents and editing long documents and switch to Claude. And it is worth it. So that's my story, and I'm sticking to it. And I'll let you know what happens after I do the, the, um, subheading thing. And when it gets ready to go. You'll be, you'll know about it, that's for sure. And so there we go. So check out my mentor program. Greatinternetmarketingtraining.com and my school IMTCVA.org. Save yourself a couple hundred grand, either sending your kids or loved ones to some four year indoctrination camp and paying for pizza and beer and shopping. In fact, there's studies that show that the bulk of the time that kids are spending at college is shopping, eating, and partying? And that's not me saying this. This is people administrators and, uh, and former professors and things like that of what's going on in that world. So you don't want to mortgage your house for that kind of crap. Go check my school out, which can be done concurrently. And it can even be done by a high school, you know, savvy high school student and concurrent with whatever studies they're doing, but they'll have a marketable skill that's in high demand.
[00:13:28] So check it out. IMTCVA.org. And if you want to get in my mentor program, you get a scholarship to the school that you can gift to your loved one or a person. So, um, I was going to say a hated one. I wouldn't do that. All right. So that's my story. I'm sticking to it. And click that link below here, wherever you, uh, you know, in the show notes when, wherever you can get to to get to the show notes, go through that masterclass. You are going to freak out on the things that you can do with no tech skill whatsoever. To use this AI craze without getting bombarded with techie geeks that are going to snow you like. They're brilliant. I'm going to show you brilliance on on a guy that's not techie, that's not me. I'm not tacky at all. But I'm going to show you what you can do with graphics. Save time, save money, make money, all of that in that one hour masterclass. So check it out and it'll the link will be in the show notes to the YouTube video, and then download the full handout that comes with it. That even goes more into making sure your site shows up in, in chat and all that when somebody's looking for something. All right, we'll catch you later.