A Bizarre Adventure with ChatGPT

8 min readFeb 10, 2025

Generative AI clearly has a lot of potential, but to truly understand how to use it effectively, you have to experiment. Recently, I decided to try something…bizarre: I asked ChatGPT to help me create anime-inspired characters based on what it knows about me. What started as a fun exercise quickly turned into something much deeper — revealing insights about how I approach leadership, strategy, and problem-solving. Here is how the adventure got started…

The Starting Point: What’s a Stand?

If you’re not familiar with JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, it’s a popular, but also niche, anime created by Hirohiko Araki that’s developed a bit of a cult following since the manga was created back in the 1980s. A key element of the manga/anime is the concept of Stands — unique, supernatural entities that reflect a character’s personality and powers. These Stands as well as the art style itself are as creative as they are bizarre, and many characters are often named after musical references, a nod to the anime’s connection to pop culture.

With all that in mind, I thought, What if I had a Stand? What would it look like? What would its abilities be? I decided to let ChatGPT create one for me.

Here’s the exact prompt I used:

“Based on all of the information you know about me and all of the things that I have created using ChatGPT, create a custom Stand for me, similar to Stands that exist in the anime JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. Create the name of the Stand and describe its powers.”

The Result: My Custom Stand, “Crystalline Vision”

ChatGPT came back with Crystalline Vision, a Stand inspired by my strengths in strategy, data analysis, and foresight.

Here’s the breakdown:

Abilities:

Data Synapse: Analyze massive amounts of information in real time to make the best decisions.
Momentum Shift: Subtly influence events to shift probabilities in my favor.
Futureproof: Predict multiple outcomes and avoid costly mistakes.
Insight Overdrive: Gain heightened perception to uncover unseen opportunities.

Stats:

Power: ★★★☆☆
Speed: ★★★★☆
Precision: ★★★★★
Potential: ★★★★★

So yeah, this was actually kind of cool but it also made sense. This wasn’t just a random list of abilities — it did appear to consider how I work and what I have been writing about. So, I kept on going.

Taking It Further: Creating a New Character

Next, I decided to create a character inspired by Jujutsu Kaisen, an anime where sorcerers fight evil spirits called curses. This time, ChatGPT designed Astrael Kisaragi, a strategist who manipulates probabilities.

Name: Astrael Kisaragi
Fighting Style: Precise and calculated, focusing on controlling the flow of battle.
Cursed Technique: Fate Algorithm — a powerful ability that simulates all possible outcomes in real time.
Domain Expansion: Celestial Nexus. When Astrael activates his Domain Expansion, the entire battlefield is transformed into a massive, ever-shifting celestial chamber filled with cascading windows, displaying every possible outcome of the fight.

As with the previous character, Astrael closely reflected how I might approach leadership and problem-solving challenges: controlled, forward-thinking, and always striving for optimization. But what I found even more interesting were the gaps.

When I asked about these characteristics, ChatGPT explained that they emphasize the ability to predict, manipulate, or optimize outcomes, mirroring your expertise in business strategy, consulting, and problem-solving. This aligns with your leadership and business development role, where anticipating challenges and guiding clients toward optimal solutions is crucial. These characters are methodical and rely on intellect and insight, reflecting your strategic, thoughtful approach to problem-solving over impulsive actions.

While that sounded great, I wondered, what about the gaps.

Spotting What Was Missing

While the characters captured a lot of my strengths, some things were left out, like:

Creativity & Inventiveness: While the characteristics where innovative and resourceful, they did not exhibit artistic or visionary strengths.
Charismatic Influence: While the characteristics exhibit strategic intelligence and leadership, the ability to persuade or inspire was not as high.
Vulnerability: While the characteristics chosen considered your preference towards logic as well as your ability to reflect inwardly, much of that appears to be done individually.

This did not come as a surprise; Woo (CliftonStrengths) is not high or my list, and I am not an IS (DiSC). With that said, I do recognize that I could be a bit more vulnerable and less driven by logic. I believe that a good team is balanced, that as a manager you do not want to have a bunch of people that are the same as you; you want people that compliment your strengths — that fill in the gaps.

Adding Partners: Filling the Gaps

To balance things out, I asked ChatGPT to create complementary characters that could pair with Crystalline & Astrael.

Partner for Crystalline Vision: Harmonic Resonance

Abilities: Resonant Persuasion (enhancing charisma) and Adaptive Synchronization (emotional adaptability).
Ultimate Ability: “Empathic Circuit”. By touching an opponent, Harmonic Resonance can briefly experience their emotions and past experiences, allowing the user to predict reactions based on personal psychology rather than probability calculations.
Why It Fits: Harmonic Resonance balances a data-driven approach with emotional intelligence and influencing skills, creating a dynamic that’s both analytical and relational.

These partnerships weren’t just cool in an anime context — they highlighted how complementary skill sets are essential in the real world. But what about a real world evaluation? Enter CliftonStrengths, a personal and professional development tool designed to identify and maximize an individual’s natural talents that was developed by Gallup; the assessment ranks 34 strengths across four domains: Strategic Thinking, Executing, Influencing, and Relationship Building. What I like about CliftonStrengths, is that it is a great way to help understand the strengths and gaps of your team, so I asked ChatGPT to evaluate the fictional characters based on CliftonStrengths assessment.

The Leadership Angle: CliftonStrengths

Top 10 Aggregate Strengths for Crystalline Vision & Astrael Kisaragi:

Strategic
Analytical
Achiever
Intellection
Learner
Relator
Maximizer
Focus
Deliberative
Command

I then compared these to my actual CliftonStrengths results — and they matched surprisingly well. After uploading my full 34, I asked ChatGPT to do some comparisons. Here is a summary of the results.

Overall Accuracy Rating: 8/10

✅ Highly accurate in identifying your core strengths in Strategic Thinking and Executing.

✅ Captured your focus on analysis, learning, and long-term vision.

⚠️️ Underestimated your emphasis on Individualization and Relator (Relationship Building).

⚠️ Overestimated Command and Maximizer, which ranked lower for you.

Of the Top 10, 5 were an exact match.

Final Remarks

Strategic Thinking: Highly Accurate — Captured deep analysis, future vision, and problem-solving.

Influencing: Partially Accurate — Overestimated dominance, underestimated persuasion & charisma.

Relationship Building: Underestimated — Overlooked strengths in mentorship, deep connections, and people development.

Executing: Mostly Accurate — Underestimated how action-driven and results-oriented you are.

The summary information serves to show accuracy, but the full details it provided was really insightful. Keep in mind, this is based on how I am using ChatGPT as well as how long and how much I have used it — it is very possible that someone could get wildly different results.

Exploring Personality: DiSC and Psychographics

Taking it one step further, I asked ChatGPT to identify my DiSC profile. It categorized me as DC (Dominance + Conscientiousness) — someone who is results-driven, analytical, and structured. Again, this aligned perfectly with results from official personal assessments.

It also generated fairly accurate demographic and psychographic profiles as well as an exact match on my Myers-Briggs type. Again, the accuracy was impressive, given that it was based solely on how I interacted with ChatGPT.

What I Learned from the Experiment

Yes, this was fun, and I probably could have jumped straight to the personality questions, but part of the process is exploring something new, being curious and wondering: what can I do next?

Here’s what I took away from the process:

AI knows a lot about you. Not just AI, but information systems in general. If ChatGPT can create as close of an understanding of who I am simply based on how I have been using it this past year, imagine how close someone could create a model that really resembles me if they have access to everything I have been doing online. The ethical and moral dilemma is huge, but there is also real usefulness.
Creativity Unlocks New Ideas: Abstract exercises like this inspire new ways of thinking about AI, technology, leadership, and even business strategy. Everything I have learned, as a part of this exercise and as a part of other evaluations always points to being logical and strategic, but there is so much value in being curious and letting go of reason from time to time. Having fun is part of the process — since I have really started digging in, I have come up with some really awesome ideas that can be applied to real client problems.

Applying This to the Real World

This exercise has practical value for businesses; just replace the characters with AI agents…

Personalized Support Agents: based on support calls from specific customers, perhaps you could have custom agents that are personalized to respond best to those customers.
Tailored Training Programs: based on those same calls, transcripts, issue logs, etc., perhaps a “training agent” could identify areas of improvement to suggest and create customized training plans tailored just for you.

Keep in mind, I am not suggesting that agents replace people, nor am I saying that the two use cases above are something new, but what I am saying is that the examples show how creative and abstract thinking can lead to new ideas that create real value.

Final Thoughts: Why Creative Thinking Matters with AI

The biggest takeaway? Yes, experimenting with generative AI is fun and it should be. Having fun is essential for learning and unlocking its full potential. By pushing boundaries with creative prompts, you unlock the question: “If it can do this, what else can it do?” That’s where innovation starts.

So, whether you’re building characters, crafting strategies, or solving complex problems, AI isn’t just a tool, it’s a partner in creativity.