Designing Characters With AI

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1. You want to create a character but only have an idea for how they look. What can AI help you finish?

   1. A recipe for chocolate cake
   2. The character's name, powers, and favorite thing
   3. A video game tutorial
   4. A math homework assignment

2. What is the MAIN job of AI when you use it for character design?

   1. To draw the final picture of your character
   2. To act as a brainstorming partner who suggests ideas
   3. To make all the decisions for you
   4. To publish your character in a book

3. A friend says, 'I used AI to create my character, so the character belongs to the AI.' What is WRONG with this thinking?

   1. You must pay AI money to keep your character
   2. AI characters are not allowed to be used
   3. AI cannot create characters at all
   4. The character is still yours — AI is just a tool that helps you create

4. Which of these is the BEST example of AI mixing things you wouldn't think to mix?

   1. A dog that looks like most dogs
   2. A superhero who is part robot, part garden gnome
   3. A person wearing a blue shirt
   4. A cat that says meow

5. What is 'world-building' in character design?

   1. Creating the setting and environment where your character lives
   2. Making your character stronger
   3. Building a house for your character to live in
   4. Drawing your character on paper

6. What does 'backstory' mean in character design?

   1. The way a character walks
   2. The story written at the back of a book
   3. The history and events that happened to a character before the story starts
   4. A character's favorite color

7. Which of these is something AI is especially GOOD at for character design?

   1. Cleaning your room
   2. Doing your math homework
   3. Writing a complete novel about your character
   4. Coming up with creative looks and fun powers

8. If you ask AI to design a 'space pirate who is afraid of the dark,' what two character parts did YOU provide?

   1. The world they live in and their age
   2. The clothing and the hair color
   3. The name and the favorite thing
   4. The type of character and the fear

9. What is a character's 'personality'?

   1. How the character looks
   2. The name of the character
   3. The way the character acts, thinks, and feels
   4. Where the character lives

10. You want to design a character but only have time to think about their powers. How can AI help?

    1. AI can suggest what the character looks like, their name, and other details you didn't think of
    2. AI will refuse to help
    3. AI will only give you powers
    4. AI will design a different character instead

11. Why might someone use AI to help design a character instead of doing it all themselves?

    1. AI will do the work perfectly without any help
    2. Characters made by AI are better than human ideas
    3. AI can suggest surprising ideas and save time thinking
    4. AI is the only way to create characters

12. What happens if you give AI a very strange character idea, like 'a coffee-cup knight who fights in space'?

    1. AI will change the idea to something normal
    2. AI will refuse to help
    3. AI can still help design it because it mixes unexpected things
    4. AI will say that's too weird

13. What does the lesson mean when it says AI is a 'brainstorm partner'?

    1. AI is better at brainstorming than humans
    2. AI and you sit at a desk together
    3. AI helps generate ideas and you choose the ones you like
    4. AI makes all the final decisions

14. Why is it important that 'the character is still yours' after using AI?

    1. Because you have to pay AI
    2. Because AI won't let you use it otherwise
    3. Because AI owns everything it creates
    4. Because it means you have creative control and ownership over what you made with AI's help

15. Which statement best describes what you've learned about using AI for character design?

    1. AI should create entire characters without any input from you
    2. AI helps you brainstorm, but you make the final choices and own the character
    3. You should never change the ideas AI gives you
    4. AI will always create better characters than humans