Publications and Research
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2025
Abstract
This exploratory study compares the output of the free versions of six generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots—ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Claude, Perplexity and HuggingChat. Five questions were submitted to all of the chatbots and examined according to the length of the response, tone of the response, and any additional features provided by the chatbots such as citations, web links, and helpful follow-up questions. This comparison found that Perplexity excelled at responding to all of the questions though others provided strong outputs as well, pointing to the possible importance of using multiple chatbot for answers and for continually examining different chatbots given that the field of generative AI is developing and evolving rapidly.
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Originally published in volume 15, issue 1 of Practical Academic Librarianship. https://pal-ojs-tamu.tdl.org/pal/article/view/7211