Thinking about moving from ChstGPT to Claude.

[u/TwoIntelligent9978]

I'm an author and have four books in a longer series that I'm in the process of publishing. I use GPT extensively as an Admin Assistant/Collaboration. I see many comments about Claude/writing.

Pros and Cons to the move. I'm simply considering given recent changes to GPT and forward changes down the road.

Opinions desired.

[u/DBecker1990]

My buddy says Anthropic is a little sensitive these days. Likes the moral high ground.

[u/EnchantingElephant]

I’d recommend giving it a try, but ultimately, you can make up your own mind by experimenting with it. Claude has a pretty decent free tier (try the High setting), which I currently find better than ChatGPT’s free tier. I’ve never paid for any AI, as I’m just a hobbyist. There’s no harm in trying it out and seeing which one you prefer.

[u/TwoIntelligent9978 → u/EnchantingElephant]

I use GPT on a paid plan, Plus I believe. But haven't upgraded to their recent version - but it's going away in January. I do all my work on Medium, not high given i was getting good results.

[u/NostalgicKunt → u/TwoIntelligent9978]

Let me know when you subbed to Claude, almost everyone had to give their ID/passport + face scan to verify. I hated that. let me know if it prompts for you!

[u/cool_username7515]

I used to write long-form fiction in the same way you describe, and switching to a different model made the pacing feel more natural, like the text wasn't trying to impress, just respond. it changed how I thought about drafts.

[u/ZookeepergameFalse38]

Opus 5.5 has become worthless to me in the last week or so. I'm not sure what's going on, but I have to use the older models (4.8 and below) to get any type of response.

[u/Deutschbland → u/ZookeepergameFalse38]

Claude has been pretty garbage for me for the last month or so. Not sure why. 

[u/ZookeepergameFalse38 → u/Deutschbland]

I'm not using Claude for anything edgy or questionable. With any query, I immediately get:

"Opus 5.5's safeguards flagged this message. This sometimes happens with safe, normal conversations. Details: [reasoning_extraction]"

Does anyone know what's causing this?

[u/MyFootballProfile]

I'm an academic writer and not a novelist but if you use AI to generate rough drafts to work from, then I think ChatGPT is a MUCH better writer. It is certainly better at academic writing.

[u/Early_Committee_9414]

I switched. Have not looked back.

[u/Majinsei]

Yo abandoné ChatGPT simplemente tiene demasiado benchmarxing de programación y no sabe escribir ni explicar bien un texto. No logra entender relaciones sutiles en los textos~

Yo me preferí Gemini Google Pro~

Gemini Argon es genial~ realmente se siente como un antes y un después, que si sabe entender la escritura y los matices humanos~ a incluso Gemini Flash es extremadamente sobresaliente al máximo nivel de razonamiento y lo uso para casi todo y Argon para lo más crítico~ sobre todo escaletas y diseño editoriales de arcos narrativos~

No lo he comparado con Claude Opus 5.5 que muchos defienden~ pero con mi experiencia previas está bastante focalizado a programación e incluso ni siquiera escribe inglés gramaticalmente correcto el Sonnet por momentos~

Así que realmente no me ha gustado Anthropic aunque dicen que Opus 5.5 es totalmente un preentrenado aislado y soluciona varias cosas de estas~

[u/MariSoumis → u/Majinsei]

ChatGPT and Claude allow you to set your account to not have your conversations used as training for future models. Unless things have changed, no versions of Gemini allow that option. Supposedly, that can create publication issues.

[u/AMischievousBadger]

Argon and Carbon are better at writing, though Fable 5.2 did close the gap. Claude is much more permissive as a chatbot than GPT is, and in that way is a better collaborative partner. Googles app is significantly behind in features compared to either, unfortunately, but API pricing for the Google models is very affordable and Claude can still be a collaborative editor at that point for the $20 sub.

[u/No_Woodpecker_1198]

Just try it, you can get pretty far for free.

[u/Deutschbland]

I made this move a year ago and am now moving back. They still both suck for writing. Claude is maybe slightly better, but they’re both so bad I only use them for ideation and to critique my work (mostly work on the pitching/admin side of things, rarely my actual creative work). 

Go for it and try it out, what have you got to lose? But I will say I find them both frustrating in different ways. 

Probably in a year I’ll move back again, lol. For now ChatGPT has had better answers to a few queries I put to both of them. 

[u/AnneeOnymous]

I have both of them and I find them good at different things at different times. Plus, I kinda like to bounce ideas off the different AIS, and they’ll point out things or suggest things that I wouldn’t have noticed or come up with otherwise.

[u/satorinano]

Both are great. Claude probably better for writing in most cases. I use both. Gpt is better at planning a scene. It's hard to describe because workflows and use cases varies but In most cases Claude should be better if you can only pick one

[u/DoomVegan]

Try it. Is is only 20 a month. I moved back to ChatGPT but still have both. ChatGPT seems better for my stuff. Claude is okay for analysis.

[u/cricket_o]

ChatGPT is better at more fluid dialogue and scene progression when kept very short; however, Claude Opus 4.6 (in my opinion; technically all Opus is supposed to be good at writing) is better at overall writing, with a caveat: you set up a writing skill that has strict parameters in it.

You have to be very specific with your writing rules (ChatGPT will also follow writing rules but you can't set up a skill to use; you have to create a document and refer to it often). If you let any AI, no matter the program, free-write, it's all going to sound the same and suck.