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Trademarks exist to distinguish the provenance of a good/service. The reality is that “GPT” is 100% associated with OpenAI in the minds of most people at this

Trademarks exist to distinguish the provenance of a good/service. The reality is that “GPT” is 100% associated with OpenAI in the minds of most people at this point. The fact that this specifies an architecture seems incidental as anyone can use this architecture and just market it with a different term. Getting upset by this seems like pearl-clutching.

jacquesm 4y ago
No it is exactly the kind of landgrab that shouldn't happen. GPT is a universal term and OpenAI didn't even come up with it. By rights it should be either not held by anybody or by the people that initially made it a well known term within the industry. Because it would be absolutely outrageous if OpenAI ended up in a position to use trademark law against the party that came up with a term.
- seizethecheese 4y ago
  Trademark law is not about these moralistic feelings. It’s about distinguishing commercial parties. If I see “GPT” I expect it’s from OpenAI. Anyone can still use the term just not in offering a commercial product.
  - jacquesm 4y ago
    I see GPT I read 'generative pre-trained transformer' which is a thing that others have built prior to OpenAI.
    - seizethecheese 4y ago
      You’re in the great minority here. The vast majority of people who see GPT in a commercial product will expect it to be from OpenAI.
      - anothernewdude 4y ago
        No, that's just their PR. The vast majority of people don't know what OpenAI is, nor care.
  - anothernewdude 4y ago
    You can expect what you like. It doesn't make it correct or not stupid or the opinion of the public in general.
anothernewdude 4y ago
No it isn't. I prefer Nvidia's GPT and the (actually) open GPTs. GPT is used by non-specialists to refer to whichever app they're using at the time, whether that uses an OpenAI API behind it or not.
- ronsor 4y ago
  After talking with (random) people, I'm convinced "ChatGPT" is just a synonym for every new AI app.
PinkRidingHood 4y ago
I don't think others share that opinion, especially in the public sphere. GPT-{number} and ChatGPT are, for me, valid trademarks as they identify OpenAI's specific product; but somethingGPT is such a generic name at this point, and GPT such an alternate name for language-based AI, that it really doesn't identify OpenAI. (even ChatGPT is an alternate name for any chat AI at this point, but I feel it's fair that OpenAI doesn't let anybody else call their product "a ChatGPT" (I'm not too sure about trademark law but I think that leaves "a ChatGPT-like AI chatbot" open))

jacquesm 4y ago

No it is exactly the kind of landgrab that shouldn't happen. GPT is a universal term and OpenAI didn't even come up with it. By rights it should be either not held by anybody or by the people that initially made it a well known term within the industry. Because it would be absolutely outrageous if OpenAI ended up in a position to use trademark law against the party that came up with a term.

seizethecheese 4y ago
Trademark law is not about these moralistic feelings. It’s about distinguishing commercial parties. If I see “GPT” I expect it’s from OpenAI. Anyone can still use the term just not in offering a commercial product.
- jacquesm 4y ago
  I see GPT I read 'generative pre-trained transformer' which is a thing that others have built prior to OpenAI.
  - seizethecheese 4y ago
    You’re in the great minority here. The vast majority of people who see GPT in a commercial product will expect it to be from OpenAI.
    - anothernewdude 4y ago
      No, that's just their PR. The vast majority of people don't know what OpenAI is, nor care.
- anothernewdude 4y ago
  You can expect what you like. It doesn't make it correct or not stupid or the opinion of the public in general.

anothernewdude 4y ago

No it isn't. I prefer Nvidia's GPT and the (actually) open GPTs. GPT is used by non-specialists to refer to whichever app they're using at the time, whether that uses an OpenAI API behind it or not.

ronsor 4y ago
After talking with (random) people, I'm convinced "ChatGPT" is just a synonym for every new AI app.

PinkRidingHood 4y ago

I don't think others share that opinion, especially in the public sphere. GPT-{number} and ChatGPT are, for me, valid trademarks as they identify OpenAI's specific product; but somethingGPT is such a generic name at this point, and GPT such an alternate name for language-based AI, that it really doesn't identify OpenAI. (even ChatGPT is an alternate name for any chat AI at this point, but I feel it's fair that OpenAI doesn't let anybody else call their product "a ChatGPT" (I'm not too sure about trademark law but I think that leaves "a ChatGPT-like AI chatbot" open))