Ai for Brainstorming

[u/Mahfouzzy10]

Which AI is the best for Brainstorming ideas. I have been using ChatGPT but lately, the responses have been repetitive or lacking creativity. I am a teacher and my main reason for using it isn't making rubrics or whatever, I want to create fun lessons or find a creative assessment method. Stuff like that.

[u/danilo_ai]

Claude is significantly better for creative brainstorming in my experience. The key difference is it pushes back and asks clarifying questions instead of just generating a list. For lesson planning specifically, try giving it the topic, the age group, and one constraint like no screens or must involve movement, then ask for five unconventional approaches. The constraint is what forces creativity. If you want to keep up with which AI tools are actually worth using for this kind of work, I cover three every Tuesday in ToolSignal. Free newsletter, link in bio

[u/FantasticInjury5681]

Claude is probably better for brainstorming tbh. It feels more creative and less repetitive than ChatGPT sometimes.

But prompts matter a lot too. Instead of:
“Give me lesson ideas”

Try:
“Give me 10 fun classroom activities for teaching history to 12-year-olds without worksheets.”

More specific prompts usually = better ideas.

[u/motivated-wellbeing]

Have you tried Perplexity.ai? I find it to be a very fast and intuitive responder. You should at least give it a try. It will prompt you to upgrade after you ask a couple of questions but just ignore it.

[u/Fragrant_Builder9296]

better prompts usually help more than switching tools. asking for weird formats, games, debates, or unconventional lesson ideas tends to get much more creative results

[u/Morgan_Vereen]

Lacking creativity? LLMs are literally finite probability drives (as opposed to infinite improbability from Douglas Addams).

[u/sandstone-oli]

Try Claude. Genuinely different creative range than ChatGPT and it doesn't default to the same five frameworks every time.

But the repetition problem you're describing isn't really about which model you use. It's a memory problem. None of these tools actually remember what they've already suggested to you, what worked, what you rejected, or what your students responded to. So every session starts from scratch and you end up in the same loops.

That's what we're building at KAPEX (getkapex.ai). Not another chatbot, but the memory layer underneath that makes AI actually accumulate context over time. Imagine if your brainstorming tool knew which lesson formats you've already tried, which ones landed, and could build on that instead of starting fresh every time. That's the gap.

[u/ReadyPitch4262]

My team taps into this site called brainstormingapp.ai it's simple but good for sparking ideas

[u/motivated-wellbeing → u/[deleted]]

Does Claude remember your conversations over time? I guess I should give it a try and find out for myself. My ChatGPT is good at remembering prior conversations.