What is AI Daily Check?
AI Daily Check answers one question: how are the frontier AI models performing today? It tracks ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini through three complementary sources. Live user votes and Reddit sentiment move fast and catch incidents within hours. LMArena community benchmarks move slowly and show whether the models themselves changed. Reading the fast and slow signals together is the whole method: a sentiment dip with stable benchmarks points to an outage or a bad rollout, while both moving together points to a real model change.
How are votes collected?
Anyone can rate a model on the homepage or its dedicated page (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) using a five-point scale: terrible, dumb, mid, smart, genius. Every vote passes a Cloudflare Turnstile check to keep automated traffic out. Voters can optionally name the exact model version they used and attach a message of up to 280 characters describing what happened; those messages are shown in the recent-reports feed and preserved in the daily review archives. A companion browser extension lets regular users vote without visiting the site. Votes are timestamped and the charts update within about a minute.
How is Reddit sentiment classified?
A scheduled worker reads new posts from the main model communities on Reddit (r/ChatGPT, r/ClaudeAI, r/ClaudeCode, and r/Bard) several times a day. A small open-weight language model (Gemma 4, as of July 2026) classifies each post onto the same five-point scale used for site votes, and the result is stored alongside them, attributed to the matching model family. This adds an independent stream of sentiment from people who never visit this site. Classification is automated and imperfect: sarcasm and mixed reviews are genuinely hard, so Reddit-derived points are best read in aggregate, not individually.
Where do the benchmark numbers come from?
The benchmarks pages use LMArena community rankings: arena scores computed from millions of head-to-head model battles judged by real users. We store weekly snapshots and show each family's models with their scores, global ranks, and vote counts. These numbers are slower and sturdier than daily sentiment, which is exactly why the site shows both.
How honest is this data?
Honest about its limits. Sample sizes vary by day, and readings on low volume are a signal, not a verdict. People are more motivated to vote when frustrated, so raw sentiment skews negative; what matters is movement against the baseline, not the absolute level. Reddit skews toward power users. We publish these caveats instead of pretending precision, and when a day's data is thin, the trend over a week is the better read.
How often does everything update?
Site votes appear in the charts within about a minute. Reddit sentiment refreshes several times a day. LMArena benchmark snapshots refresh weekly. Guides and articles carry explicit created and updated dates, and the updated date only changes with a substantive content change.
Who runs this site?
AI Daily Check is built and run by Eric Khun, an independent developer. The site is independent and ad-free, with no affiliation with OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google. Corrections and questions are welcome through the contact details on his site.