AI Chatbots

Why use AI Chatbots for Sims?

AI chatbots are incredibly accessible because they are very good at understanding what you're trying to say
AI chatbots can help you understand racing concepts that apply in sim racing games
AI chatbots are specially good for modders to help them understand techniques or concepts
Trying to get some information? Good chatbots will go out and find it for you.
Trying to understand a concept? Just keep asking more and more until you're satisfied.

Always verify "facts" or data points output by AI
For example, I asked Grok to get me the latitudes of a dozen locations at once and then I confirmed the latitudes using Wikipedia and Google Maps. Remarkably, it got them all right but you should still verify.

Grok - Live info, always searches the web for sources. X.com users already have access to X Grok.
ChatGPT - Very good reasoning, image generation, but seems to lack live data access
Google Gemini - Gemini 3 started getting good
Microsoft Copilot - Getting better
Duck.AI Chatbots - Run by privacy search engine DuckDuckGo, provides multiple, free AI models, even ChatGPT models. Pricing very fair but requires subscribing through an app.
Lumo - Run by respected Proton ie. Proton Mail, near complete end-to-end encryption
DeepAI
Perplexity AI
Brave Search - Run by privacy search engine Brave, just run a search and an AI chatbot will usually automatically provide an answer. Alternatively, use the AI icon to explicitly pull the AI.
You.com AI - No live data access
HuggingChat AI - No live data access
DeekSeek AI - Chinese owned/operated, China located, apparently quite good

Notes:

This list is also rougly ordered by which AI I find to be the most helpful and useful to me
Bolded are my preferred chatbots for more reliable, high quality answers

tl;dr If you're using or could use AI every day for your work, then yes, maybe $30/month could be well worth it but I'm not willing to pay over $10/month for what AI currently is
Not for me, yet, as a casual user who just does text exchanges and very rarely generates images or video and doesn't do too much with AI using advanced skills like coding
AI companies are still charging CAD $30/month but I'm not willing to pay more than CAD $10/month for what AI currently is for what I get out of it. AI might very well reach a super competent level soon, though, that could convince me. But usage limits would have to rise to make paying worth it.