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boxedemp 3 hours ago

My sister uses Gemini and calls it chat gpt. It's becoming a genericide.

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simonw 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I still think it's hilarious that a product name as awful as "ChatGPT" has become so ubiquitous.

I wonder what percentage of its users know what the GPT stands for, or even thought about it for a second?

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chii 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I mean, how is it any worse than 'google'?

chatgpt is generic (as in, no prior meaning attached, except for the few people in the world who understand what GPT stands for). It's simple - even a non-english speaker can say it easily, and doesn't require one to be native to know how to pronounce it (this is a difficult concept for a native english speaker to grok).

These features makes for a good name.

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simonw 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

"Google" at least doesn't have an acronym for "Generative pre-trained transformer" baked into it.

	▲	akkad33 29 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		And many people don't know what Google stands for. Just like they probably didn't care what AOL stands for, or MSN
	▲	chii an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Even you agreed that almost nobody knows what GPT stands for - which means it's as random as any other three letter acronyms. So i argue that chatGPT is indeed a good name (as good as google was).

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wiredpancake 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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GCUMstlyHarmls an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

My aunt calls it "chat", "I asked chat", which is funny to my online-brain. Like she's a streamer with a permanent audience of 1. Hey chat, is this real?^1

1. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/chat-is-this-real