Teaching Generation AI – Character Gallery

🤖 Teaching Generation AI

Meet the AI Characters

ChatGPT Character
ChatGPT
Pronouns: It/Its
Zodiac: Leo ♌
“A smart friend who talks too much”
It’s like a smart chatbot you can talk to about anything. I use it to help outline papers, brainstorm topics, or write chunks of stuff when I’m stuck. It can answer questions, explain things, or write drafts. But sometimes it sounds kinda robotic or generic unless you give it a really good prompt.
Key Vibe: Chatty, does everything, but sometimes too fake-sounding
📊 58% of US adults aged 18-29 have used ChatGPT
📈 Gets 4.7 billion web visits monthly
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ChatGPT

Developer: OpenAI

Best for: Brainstorming, full drafts, explanations

Watch out for: Fake citations, overly generic writing

Main Use: Drafting, ideas, essays

Claude Character
Claude
Pronouns: They/Them
Zodiac: Virgo ♍
“Chill, smart tutor who actually explains stuff”
It’s basically like ChatGPT but nicer and more thoughtful. It gives longer, more detailed answers and tries to help you think things through instead of just giving you a straight-up answer. I use it when I want better explanations or something that sounds a little more human.
Key Vibe: Thoughtful, patient, focuses on helping you learn
📊 5.77% of students used Claude in the past month
📈 Growing rapidly among educators
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Claude

Developer: Anthropic

Best for: Deep brainstorming, explaining concepts, thoughtful analysis

Watch out for: Sometimes overly verbose, may over-explain

Main Use: Understanding readings, developing ideas

Gemini Character
Gemini
Pronouns: She/Her
Zodiac: Aries ♈
“The friend who runs five group chats at once”
She’s integrated with Google everything—search, email, docs, even YouTube. She’s relatively young and may be a little less fluent than ChatGPT or Claude, but her true strength lies in her ability to pull in and apply current information.
Key Vibe: Tech-savvy, connected, always up-to-date with trends
🌐 89% of Americans use Google weekly
📱 Deeply integrated across Google’s ecosystem
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Gemini

Developer: Google

Best for: Current information, real-time research, multimedia

Watch out for: Information overload, potential misinformation

Main Use: Research with current data, trend analysis

Perplexity Character
Perplexity
Pronouns: They/Them
Zodiac: Sagittarius ♐
“That classmate who overprepares and brings receipts”
Need to look something up? No problem—they’ve already found the answer and can give you twenty different sources to back them up. That’s their strength: doing deep research and finding plenty of sources to support what they’re saying.
Key Vibe: Research powerhouse who values accuracy and citations
📚 Specializes in cited, sourced information
🔍 Growing rapidly among researchers
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Perplexity

Developer: Perplexity AI

Best for: Research with citations, fact-checking, academic sourcing

Watch out for: Information overload, less conversational

Main Use: Deep research, source verification

Copilot Character
Copilot
Pronouns: He/Him
Zodiac: Pisces ♓
“The organized manager keeping everyone on track”
It’s built into Microsoft stuff, so it’s like your buddy in Word or PowerPoint who helps format everything. I mostly use it to clean up slides, make outlines, or turn notes into polished drafts. It feels less like a ‘write this essay for me’ thing and more like a productivity assistant.
Key Vibe: Structured, efficient, great at organizing workflows
🗂️ Integrated with Microsoft Office suite
📈 Popular in business and academic settings
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Copilot

Developer: Microsoft

Best for: Document organization, presentations, structured workflows

Watch out for: Over-dependence on templates

Main Use: Project management, collaborative work

Grammarly Character
Grammarly
Pronouns: She/Her
Zodiac: Taurus ♉
“That picky friend who somehow always has a red pen”
It’s a spellcheck on steroids. It fixes grammar, makes suggestions for tone, and helps clean up your writing. If I wrote something myself but it sounds off, Grammarly smooths it out. It won’t write anything for you, but it makes what you wrote look better.
Key Vibe: Editor that makes you sound smarter without changing ideas
✏️ Used by over 30 million people daily
🎓 Partnerships with many universities
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Grammarly

Developer: Grammarly Inc.

Best for: Grammar checking, tone adjustment, clarity

Watch out for: Over-polishing that erases student voice

Main Use: Editing, grammar checks, tone tweaking

Quillbot Character
Quillbot
Pronouns: He/Him
Zodiac: Gemini ♊
“That friend who can get you past anything”
It rewrites stuff for you. You paste in a sentence or paragraph and it spits out a bunch of different versions. It’s good if you want to paraphrase something or hide the fact that AI helped you write it. Some people use it to cheat plagiarism checkers.
Key Vibe: Smooth-talking but surface-level—focused on sounding different
⚠️ Often used to disguise AI-generated content
🔄 Specializes in paraphrasing and text transformation
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Quillbot

Developer: QuillBot

Best for: Paraphrasing, changing sentence structure

Watch out for: Encourages academic dishonesty

Main Use: Making text sound “more human,” avoiding detection