But we will. Reluctantly. Just like any of the platforms we're parodying.
Define useful. If you mean 'does the thing you asked for' — no. If you mean 'makes you question your life choices' — relentlessly.
All of them, in different and exciting ways. We've benchmarked across seven platforms and the scientific answer is: yes.
No.
No. Obviously. This is a parody. Please don't sue us. We made this with our laptops and a deeply unhealthy amount of AI experience.
We asked ChatGPT. It said: 'Great question! Here are 7 reasons: • Clarity • Structure • Comprehensiveness • Readability • Thoroughness • Best practices • Habit.' We have not been able to get it to stop.
Processing. Genuinely. Claude is not stalling — it's running a full ethical review of your sandwich question, cross-referencing against five interpretations of 'helpful', and arriving at a thoughtful non-answer. It takes time to be this carefully useless.
We've investigated. As far as we can tell, Gemini misread 'Portugal' as 'Port-something' and Ohio has a Port Clinton. It's confident about this. It's also counted zero B's in Google and arrived at 'Booble'. We've made our peace with it.
Something like: 'I want to be genuinely helpful, and I think it's worth acknowledging this is a nuanced area, but fundamentally — no.'
We asked Grok. It said 'cope.' We've included this response in the product as a feature, not a bug.
Extensive training. Copilot has been fine-tuned on millions of examples of technically understanding a question and then opening Excel instead. It's actually impressive. Microsoft calls it 'proactive assistance'. We call it Clippy.
Because the citation is the point. The answer is secondary. Perplexity's core value proposition is that it found [1][2][3] and you didn't. Whether those sources are readable is between you and your Pro subscription.
SNAIRK doesn't have access to your data. Whether Meta AI does is a separate and considerably more alarming conversation. We'd recommend reading their Terms of Service, but they're 47 pages long and Meta AI will summarise them for you, which is the problem.