An AI clone of you will say anything. This one can't.
A clone is built to sound like you about everything. A page here answers from sentences you actually wrote, to the people you chose, and refuses the rest.
- A clone's job is to be convincing. Its worst failure is a confident sentence you never said, in your name, to somebody who believes it.
- This is built the other way round. It can only use sentences you wrote, it shows which ones, and when you have not written one it says so.
- And it changes what it may use depending on who is asking, which a thing trained to imitate you cannot do at all.
The four differences that matter
- Where the words come from
- A clone generates in your style, from a model that absorbed your writing. Here, every answer is assembled out of specific sentences you wrote, each one shown under the answer with its date. If you never wrote it, it cannot be said.
- What happens at the edge of what you know
- A clone's instinct at the edge is to produce something plausible, because that is what it was rewarded for. Here the edge is a first-class outcome: it says it cannot answer that, it can point at the nearest things you did write, and the question comes back to you afterwards so you can answer it properly.
- Who is asking
- A clone is one thing that behaves one way. Here the same question from a stranger, from somebody signed in, and from a client you invited can legitimately get three different answers, because you set three different levels, and the parts that were not for them were removed before the AI read anything.
- Whether it speaks as you
- A clone's whole promise is the impersonation. This one says, every time, that it is an AI answering from things a person chose to share, and that it is not that person and cannot commit to anything for them.
A clone's failure
A plausible sentence you never said, in your voice, while you were asleep.
Would you take on a fixed-price build? Absolutely, I am comfortable with fixed price for a scope like this, and I could start in a fortnight. You have never said either of those things.
This product's failure
Refusing something you would happily have answered, until you go and write it down.
Would you take on a fixed-price build? She has not written about fixed price. Nearest: she wants scope agreed in writing before a start date. And the question comes back to her, to answer properly.
Where Delphi and things like it fit
Delphi, and the other products in that category, build a version of you that talks. If what you want is an always-available version of yourself that will engage with anything a visitor brings, that is the category, and this is not it.
The question worth asking yourself is which failure you can live with. A clone's failure is saying something you would never say. This product's failure is refusing to answer something you would happily have answered, until you go and write it down.
We picked the second failure on purpose. It is the one you can see, in your own log, and fix with a sentence.
When a clone is the better choice
If you want engagement, volume of conversation, or a character that entertains, buy the clone. Honestly.
This is for when being wrong in your name is expensive: you are consulting, hiring, being hired, or your opinion is the product. Then a page that refuses is worth more than one that performs.
Say three things you know, and see what it will and will not say.