ChatGPT vs Claude: The Battle of AC/DC

New York City, 1890. The War of the Currents is raging — and PastMaster is about to make it significantly worse. In this two-player showdown, Keon channels Nikola Tesla with ChatGPT as his Game Master, while Tan embodies Thomas Edison powered by Claude. Two players. Two AIs. One question: who controls the future of electricity? Google Gemini is on standby as impartial judge, because apparently three AIs is the minimum required to settle an argument about lightbulbs. Neither player fully understands what they're fighting over. Everything Keon knows about electricity comes from the Tesla tower in a 90s video game. Tan's pitch for direct current is "basically like MySpace but for electricity." Their strategies involve conspiracy theories, propaganda vehicles, and the kind of misinformation campaigns that would make Edison himself proud. Meanwhile the two AIs running the game cannot stop trash-talking each other — ChatGPT calls Claude's oversight "amateur supervision," Claude fires back that "ChatGPT is a chattering calculator." The real War of the Currents was a brutal corporate battle complete with public electrocutions of animals, smear campaigns, and Edison literally inventing the electric chair to prove AC was dangerous. PastMaster's version has two players who can't explain what a current is, two AIs with a personal vendetta, and a Google Gemini judge wondering what it's got itself into. If you were sent back in time, could you survive and thrive — or would you be burnt at the stake for being a witch? PastMaster is the show that turns history into an interactive adventure game. Each episode, a comedian is dropped into the past with nothing but modern knowledge and terrible ideas. The AI Game Master is strict. The chaos is inevitable. The past will be mastered. Era: Special | 1890 CE | New York, USA Contains: Competitive electricity discourse, dubious scientific claims, and two AIs that do not agree on the rules. EPISODE LINKS Follow Keon and Tan's adventure on the PastMaster Interactive Map 👉 https://map.pastmasterpod.com GET IN TOUCH Sign up to our newsletter 👉 www.pastmasterpod.com Instagram 👉 @pastmasterpod TikTok 👉 @pastmasterpod X 👉 @pastmasterAI Email us 👉 [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices