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OpenAI came after our domain because we use GPT in it

• senttoschool 3y ago
  OpenAI is quickly becoming a villain in order to protect their moat and ensure others can't catch up to them.
  • ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
    Hey, it's not their fault, closedai.com [1] was already taken. [1] Apparently it's really a thing, funny, https://closedai.com https://closedai.com
    • gs17 3y ago
      The same guy seems to also have closeai.com, and it eventually links to superangels.co, which actually redirects to a Google search for superangels.com. What a strange little corner of the internet.
• Josh613 3y ago
  This is not good.
• batch12 3y ago
  Maybe publish some material related to GUID partition tables and how they work. Since I believe they own the trademark for GPT in relation to language models (yeah it sucks) it may be the only way to use your domain.
  • Hamuko 3y ago
    gptchat.io: The Internet's #1 source for GUID Partition Table talk.
    • samdcbu 3y ago
      Finally, somewhere that is covering the issues I care about but that the mainstream media refuses to cover.
  • tyingq 3y ago
    >Since I believe they own the trademark for GPT in relation to language models EinsteinGPT and BloombergGPT exist, so I'm left wondering if that's true.
  • DonHopkins 3y ago
    Ages ago I wrote a parody web page about BSML, and some Bioinformatic Sequence Markup Language shovelers complained to me about it. You will never guess what excrement of theirs that I called them on. https://www.donhopkins.com/home/catalog/text/bsml.html https://www.donhopkins.com/home/catalog/text/bsml.html A manufacturer of solid lubricants made from a mixture of polymers, oils, and other additives also complained to me about my web site about Microsoft Monopoly. I wouldn't sell, but they grabbed it up after I let it expire. https://donhopkins.com/home/Micropoly/ https://donhopkins.com/home/Micropoly/ https://www.micropoly.com/ https://www.micropoly.com/
  • intelVISA 3y ago
    Personally excited for ChatMBR.
    • djoldman 3y ago
• tescocles 3y ago
  I'm not really well-versed in this kind of thing to make any particular comments, but this made me rage: >Please reply to this message by 05.10.2023 to let us know that you received it and intend to make the applicable changes. How effing arrogant do you have to be to say something like this? No "please respond and we can talk about it", it's "please confirm you know we're the big guys, and you're going to do what we say".
  • Karellen 3y ago
    But nice of them to give the site four and a half months to think about it.
    • dingledork69 3y ago
      That deadline passed 12 days ago
      • bongobingo1 3y ago
        Response not due till October though.
      • fouc 3y ago
        irb(main):008:0> Date.parse("05.10.2023") => #<Date: 2023-10-05 ((2460223j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)> Should be for October 5, according to that format.
        • rob74 3y ago
          Yeah, if you insist on using your weird American date format, use "May 10th, 2023" or at least "05/10/2023" to make it less ambiguous, using dots implies DD.MM.YYYY the same way as using dashes implies YYYY-MM-DD...
          • cesarb 3y ago
            > use "May 10th, 2023" or at least "05/10/2023" to make it less ambiguous, using dots implies DD.MM.YYYY the same way as using dashes implies YYYY-MM-DD... For most of the world, using slashes also implies DD/MM/YYYY. For instance, I would write today's date as 17/05/2023.
• amelius 3y ago
  If it is any consolation: at some point OpenAI will receive a letter from Google's patent attorneys.
  • Averroes9743 3y ago
    you mean Google Pattent Trolls (inc.)
  • cma 3y ago
    I believe Google already released transformers under an apache 2 license with a patent grant: https://github.com/google/mediapipe/blob/master/mediapipe/model_maker/python/text/core/bert_model_options.py https://github.com/google/mediapipe/blob/master/mediapipe/mo...
• jacquesm 3y ago
  When did you register it first?
• sharemywin 3y ago
  Too bad this domain is already taken gpt-shirts.com. "They trademarked GPT and all I got was this T-shirt"
  • huksley 3y ago
    Or GPT-shirt, as in generic plain t-shirt.
• pwdisswordfishc 3y ago
  > openal.com Open Audio Library?
  • yeputons 3y ago
    Good catch, I did not notice that "I" and "L" are intermixed in the letter. In particular, their link uses "L" instead of "I".
    • hxugufjfjf 3y ago
      I always make sure to write Al when talking about AI. As in Weird Al Yankovich.
    • carrolldunham 3y ago
      So it's not even from OpenAI, it's a fishing scam
    • decide1000 3y ago
      I used OCR on a screenshot of the email. That's probably the reason of the mixup.
• faeyanpiraat 3y ago
  I've had the fortune of receiving an even more obnoxious threat from another big co., fortunately my lawyer helped me make them go away by advising me to stand my ground and just tell them repeatedly how their claims are completely unfounded. Your case might be different, but you may want to ask for professional advice as well.
• boynamedsue 3y ago
  I wonder if Salesforce will be getting a similar letter: https://twitter.com/Benioff/status/1658551937971916800 https://twitter.com/Benioff/status/1658551937971916800
  • lotu 3y ago
    Probably but they have lawyers to handle this type of stuff.
• mirekrusin 3y ago
  Waiting for somebody to create gptemail.com that automatically responds to every email using chatgpt.
  • merek 3y ago
    I recently came across ChatGPT for email but it only creates drafts at the user's request. Probably a good thing it doesn't auto-send, who knows what it would/wouldn't be agreeing to. https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/k10_ai_email_assistant/452752139478 https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/k10_ai_email_as...
• pavlov 3y ago
  Everybody thought “Windows” was too generic, but Microsoft successfully defended the trademark. It seems very similar to OpenAI’s claim here. The formulation that Microsoft allowed was “N for Windows”, but not “WindowsN” or similar. (For example, SuperFixer 1.0 for Windows instead of WindowsSuperFixer 1.0)
  • CameronNemo 3y ago
    Drake also supposedly trademarked "God's Plan" (for use in clothing). I wonder how God feels about that one.
    • kayodelycaon 3y ago
      "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23 NIV) ;)
• p0w3n3d 3y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_pre-trained_transformer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_pre-trained_transfo... I think this should not be allowed for OpenAI to own this term
  • croes 3y ago
    Isn't your link more of a reason pro OpenAI's trademark claim? >The concept and first such model were introduced in 2018 by the American artificial intelligence organization OpenAI
    • matemp 3y ago
      https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_aUoGHeoefAJ:https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx%3Fg%3D763049f7-7ef8-4a68-bdb1-2e4fa194b7ad&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_aUoGH... https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/inno/stories/news/2023/05/10/openai-startups-gpt.html https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/inno/stories/news/2... **From the article: "...the actual phrase GPT, standing for generative pre-trained transformer, is a broad term describing the AI technology. The term was first introduced in 2018 in a research paper published by OpenAI, but has since been used to describe any AI model that meet certain criteria. This broad use could cause problems for OpenAI as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office says it can refuse to trademark a term that is 'merely descriptive.'"
  • p0w3n3d 3y ago
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  • ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
    Gentle reminder laws are fake and act only as a differentiator between having or not having money/power: 'Fashion designer Marc Jacobs and Ohio State University separately filed applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 2019 to trademark [the word] “the”' [1]. [1] https://www.fastcompany.com/90763993/why-marc-jacobs-and-ohio-state-both-fought-to-trademark-the-word-the https://www.fastcompany.com/90763993/why-marc-jacobs-and-ohi...
• rollulus 3y ago
  I wonder if my hypothetical sites “The Laughing Pterosaur” at thelaughingpterosaur.com or “OpenPGP Tips and Tricks” at openpgptipsandtricks.com get flagged as well.
  • dmichulke 3y ago
    IANAL, but make sure you include real pictures of laughing pterosaurs and not generated ones.
• algorias 3y ago
  It's bad for OpenAI to go after a blank website, which could develop into anything, not necessarily related to their GPT product. Other than that, this is exactly how trademarks are supposed to work. OP should just calmly tell OpenAI that they are not infricting on the trademark, because it's not in the same business domain. I get that people have a negative attitude towards the company because the "open" in its name basically turned out to be massive bait. But this is business as usual and trademarks exist for good reasons.
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  • account42 3y ago
    The problem is precisely the spamming of takedown requests without doing any due dilligence that the target actually does infringe at at all, essentially offloading your enforcement costs to random individuals. IMO reapeated offenses of this kind of behavior should result in complete loss of the trademark.
  • Terretta 3y ago
    The web site being blank works in OpenAI favor as cybersquatting works against the domain owner.
  • NewJazz 3y ago
    OP should just calmly tell OpenAI that they are not infricting on the trademark, because it's not in the same business domain. OP should not communicate with OpenAI without a lawyer at this point. The one exception is if this vaguely threatening letter turns into a formal cease and desist, and OP cannot budget for a lawyer.
• BoppreH 3y ago
  OP, did you use OCR or find/replace on this email? Every occurrence of "OpenAI" in their message ends in lowercase L, as in OPENAL (with an amusing exception of the name in quotes). That includes the email to reply to. Also, I'm pretty sure you can't claim trademark infringement for an empty page and a domain made of generic words, because trademarks are limited to context.
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  • decide1000 3y ago
    Yes I used OCR on the screenshot of the email they sent.
    • blooalien 3y ago
      That seems like a lot of extra unnecessary effort for copy/paste-able plaintext.
      • deleted 3y ago
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      • capableweb 3y ago
        Plain Text > Screenshot -> OCR -> Plain Text can be used for avoiding some sorts of identifiers hidden in text.
      • Anthony-G 3y ago
        Yes. It just makes the text harder to read for no good reason. It’s plain-text – not an uploaded Word document or PDF with lots of hidden metadata.
        • capableweb 3y ago
          Even plain text can contain hidden metadata.
• raverbashing 3y ago
  Funny how "OpenAI" speedran themselves in record time to be the litigious and moat-building villains of AI
• pimlottc 3y ago
  You haven’t said what the GPT in your domain name means. Is it actually a reference to AI or is it completely unrelated?
• kypro 3y ago
  I think Elon said something interesting about OpenAI in an interview he gave yesterday which I didn't perviously understand – as part of their deal with Microsoft Microsoft have right to all of OpenAI's model weights. This means at any time Microsoft has the right to take their models and cut off OpenAI's funding. I would seem OpenAI now have very little autonomy as a company. Since any IP they currently have can be taken by Microsoft there's very little incentive for other companies to invest. And since OpenAI isn't profitable they are now 100% dependent on Microsoft to continue operating. I think we may as well consider OpenAI a Microsoft acquisition since this appears to more accurately describe the relationship here. Perhaps Sam Altman was just too stupid to understand this, but I suspect that isn't the case. It seems he probably knew OpenAI would effectively become a Microsoft research project as part of their deal, and therefore we should probably assume that they will operate with for-profit incentives – and with those of Microsoft's more specifically. I guess what I'm saying is that this doesn't surprise me, and I'd expect more of this to come.
  • andsoitis 3y ago
    > as part of their deal with Microsoft Microsoft have right to all of OpenAI's model weights. This means at any time Microsoft has the right to take their models and cut off OpenAI's funding. How does he know this? Is it because the terms of the OpenAI / MSFT deal are public knowledge? Or is he just making it up?
    • CameronNemo 3y ago
      He was an early investor. $50m. Maybe that gives him special access to docs.
  • nocoiner 3y ago
    I don’t think Musk is a very reliable narrator in general, and given the history he’s probably particularly unreliable in the context of OpenAI. As far as I know, the terms of their deal with Microsoft aren’t public, but all the reporting I’ve seen has suggested the opposite - that OpenAI basically kept full control over anything resembling the crown jewels. And why wouldn’t they? It was a frothier market when the deal was made, and it’s not like they couldn’t have raised capital from dozens of other sources.
• rostigerpudel 3y ago
  Their statement is plain ridiculous scare tactics. A trademark registration is not a monopoly on any and all use of that combination of letters. If you are in Switzerland, you might have a right to use the domain because you registered it before the trademark was registered. Ask a trademark attorney about application of Art. 14 of the Swiss Trademark Code. Plus, they may have no right to enforce anything at all if you do not use the domain for their registered goods/services. Again, ask a trademark attorney.
• hackerfactor1 3y ago
  Disclaimer: I'm not an attorney and this is not legal advice. 1. Can you claim that GPT are your initials? (Is your name George Patrick Tanner? Gina Parker Taylor?) 2. If you are using it for AI, then you're not going to be able to show that "GPT" is a term of art predating their company. The first appearance of the term for AI is from a paper by OpenAI. 3. Check the dates. Did you register your domain name before they filed their patent/trademark? (They filed in on Feb 3, 2023.) If so, then you have an argument for prior art. 4. Don't make an offer to sell (even in jest) without talking to an attorney. They could interpret it as a bad-faith negotiation and take the domain. 5. Do you plan to use the web site for something unrelated to AI? Information about GUID Partition Tables? Goniopora Toxin? General-purpose technologies? Generalized probabilistic theory? Grounded practical theory? Anything like this doesn't compete with their trademark.
  • est31 3y ago
    > They filed in on Feb 3, 2023. IANAL but that's just the swiss trademark. The US trademark is from Dec 22, 2022. Serial number 97733259.
    • moogly 3y ago
      It would'be been so apt had it been Dec 22, 2012.
  • TuringNYC 3y ago
    >> 1. Can you claim that GPT are your initials? (Is your name George Patrick Tanner? Gina Parker Taylor?) That didnt work so well in the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft
    • account42 3y ago
      > A settlement was eventually reached Or in other words, we didn't get to find out how well it would work. > Robertson opined that – had legal proceedings ensued – Rowe would have made a strong argument for keeping his domain, as he was using his real name and was not claiming to be affiliated with Microsoft.
• nickthegreek 3y ago
  I'd let em know that you have plans for the domain but they could have it for $SILLY_CASH_AMOUNT. Maybe get chatGPT to polish up the language.
• hakube 3y ago
  It's a scam to get a hold of your domain name. They can't own the term GPT.
• aww_dang 3y ago
  GPT meant, "Get Paid To" in the incentive advertising world. Maybe your product was using this acronym? These robo-takedown outfits are a form of spam in my view. If you are publishing large sites or include user generated content you've probably run into them more than once. From what I've seen claimed as infringing it is obvious that there is no human review process. Compare to the expense of filing court actions for bulk frivolous claims. Typically they can be ignored if your hosting provider is game. Their first step will be to try to harvest your data by provoking a response. If you do feel compelled to respond, be sure to run it by someone with legal expertise. Anything you say can be misconstrued in the worst possible way. At the end of the day, these companies want to produce metrics to say, "We defended your brand from N number of verified infringement incidents this quarter. Based on the escalating threat volume, we recommend giving us more money going forward..." IANAL, but I would avoid interacting with these 3rd party trolls. If they truly want to send a demand letter, ChatGPT's lawyers should send it by courier and obtain receipt of your signature. Until then I wouldn't take it seriously. This doesn't even rise to the level of a genuine legal threat or registered demand letter. It is more of a scare tactic.
• lolinder 3y ago
  IANAL, and if you want to stand up to them you probably need one. However, note that they do not use the word trademark anywhere. That's because they do not yet own the trademark on GPT [0], it's still awaiting examination. I'm not an expert here, but this letter feels to me like they're starting to try to intimidate people into following their guidelines as prep work to ensure that it doesn't become generic before they even get the trademark. Again, IANAL and I'm not giving advice, but this is not a trademark infringement warning because there is (as of yet) no trademark. [0] https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=97733259&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=97733259&caseSearchType=U...
  • pbhjpbhj 3y ago
    This is my personal opinion and not legal advice. IANA trademark practitioner. Before the EUTM [0], the EU trade mark office, they're currently in opposition proceedings with no oppositions registered. AFAIK the term GPT is entirely descriptive (so not distinctive) and so is unsuitable for use as a trademark. It should be refused, but I wouldn't expect trademark examiners to have heard of generative-pretraining, nor that this can be applied to transformers to make a gpt. Unless someone tells them then I expect the application by OpenAI would be allowed. That said, OpenAI can use the term "trademark" if they're using that term as a mark of origin for goods or services, it doesn't need to be registered first (at which point it becomes an RTM and can use the (R) symbol). Indeed you can register a mark as having acquired distinctiveness through your prior use as a trademark ("acquired distinctiveness"). [0] https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/trademarks/018836652 https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/trademarks/01883665...
    • sgu999 3y ago
      > Unless someone tells them then I expect the application by OpenAI would be allowed. How does one tell "them" and why don't you?
      • tough 3y ago
        How do I file an opposition? Oppositions against EU trade mark applications have to be filed in writing within a period of 3 months following the publication of the EU trade mark application in the EU Trade Marks Bulletin. For your convenience, oppositions can also be filed using the online form. https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/opposition#:~:text=How%20do%20I%20file%20an,filed%20using%20the%20online%20form https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/opposition#:~:text=How.... Someone should really use ChatGPT to write an opposition letter and submit for the lols
• itsuka 3y ago
  Does anyone know if this affects open source and non-commercial projects as well? I can name over 50 projects that have "GPT" in them. If I'm not mistaken, @ChatGPTBot on Twitter received some kind of sponsorship from OpenAPI. However, the project on GitHub makes it clear that it is not affiliated with OpenAI. So, some projects may be approved to use "GPT" on a case-by-case basis?
• diimdeep 3y ago
  Is Musk right ? [flagged] [dead] Elon Musk on Sam Altman and ChatGPT: I am the reason OpenAI exists https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35973399 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35973399 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWr-DA5Wjfw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWr-DA5Wjfw full interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYGdm845lc8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYGdm845lc8
• whiplash451 3y ago
  Expect GPT to be trademarked soon and any company trying to use "GPT" in their name to get the same treatment they would get from using "Google" in their name.
  • matemp 3y ago
    https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_aUoGHeoefAJ:https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx%3Fg%3D763049f7-7ef8-4a68-bdb1-2e4fa194b7ad&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_aUoGH... https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/inno/stories/news/2023/05/10/openai-startups-gpt.html https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/inno/stories/news/2... **From the article: "...the actual phrase GPT, standing for generative pre-trained transformer, is a broad term describing the AI technology. The term was first introduced in 2018 in a research paper published by OpenAI, but has since been used to describe any AI model that meet certain criteria. This broad use could cause problems for OpenAI as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office says it can refuse to trademark a term that is 'merely descriptive.'"
• gjsman-1000 3y ago
  This is actually a really big problem big companies have - they outsource enforcement to other companies like BrandShield. 99% of the time they clean up scum that nobody notices, but once in a while they strike incorrectly and cause a lot of bad PR for the first brand. A good example would be the recent Nintendo takedown of LockpickRCM. That actually wasn't Nintendo - that was one of their partners getting ambitious (though Nintendo didn't necessarily feel the need to intervene and reverse it). If you inform BrandShield that "GPT" is not a trademark of OpenAI, was a term originally created by Google (what about their copyright?), and that you refuse to comply based on that grounds, I would hope they step down; because they would hopefully realize that any attempt at enforcement would be far from a slam-dunk legal case.
• supermatt 3y ago
  Pfft. They didn't even start the registration for their GPT trademarks until the end of 2022, and now they are threatening people to try and defend against dilution. Sorry OpenAI, that term is now generic. Good luck keeping those registrations that were already granted!
  • polalavik 3y ago
    they dont even seem to own chatgpt.com!
    • pbhjpbhj 3y ago
      There's a 1½ month earlier RTM application for ChatGPT, OpenAI not surprisingly have opposed it.
• 1970-01-01 3y ago
  It's best to ignore these demand letters, but this isn't legal advice. More here: https://www.sparkfun.com/news/3917 https://www.sparkfun.com/news/3917 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27694537 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27694537
• seydor 3y ago
  We should all stop using GPT and use LLM instead , it's easy. Right here, right now, just dont use GPT, if all competitors use LLM instead , it will become even more widely recognizable than GPT
  • JohnFen 3y ago
    I think the opposite. We should all use "gpt" to refer to this class of software, to increase the odds that it will be genericized.
    • seydor 3y ago
      i think gpt has been registered by openAi a long time ago, and they are the ones who came up with the term. After all it's not like a particularly unique way to describe the models.
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• ftxbro 3y ago
  make GPT-5: no thank you send threatening letters to every GPT: yes please
• boredemployee 3y ago
  I'd reply with a big fuck off.
• jpambrun 3y ago
  Are we supposed to be compelled to respond to emails? This could be a scam or fishing. I also expect filters to commonly put messages with such wording into spam folder. Isn't this just safe to ignore until you get a physical registered letter?
• lacoolj 3y ago
  doesn't seem like this is a "takedown notice" of any legal kind from the company homepage: "BrandShield’s robust technology scans the internet, analyzes potential threats and detects phishing threats, online brand abuse, TM infringements and counterfeit sales. Our experienced and skilled takedown experts remove those threats relentlessly." If they were lawyers they probably wouldn't need to use phrasing like "experienced and skilled takedown experts"
• AHOHA 3y ago
  Just say its abbreviation means something else, they can’t copy right sentences now are they?
• YounesDz 3y ago
  What confuses me about OpenAI is that, after poaching the copyright of so many sites to train their model, they expect those who use "GPT" in their product names to comply. They did this for Craiyon.com (their new name now), and unfortunately, I expect to see more of this legal hunting. I'm glad that Reddit has finally asked for a piece of the cake and demanded a profit for their APIs and content. The biggest hurdle that AI will face won't be a technical one, but rather copyright laws and EU guidelines.
• nabogh 3y ago
  I wonder what gpt.com.au are thinking. They pre date todays GPT usage so they're surely safe but their name just became confusing overnight.
  • LouisSayers 3y ago
    The car company Nissan still doesn't own Nissan.com. I'd say gpt.com.au is safe.
• OliverJacob12 3y ago
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  • 876978095789789 3y ago
    I flagged this comment because it's a dupe of another, and looks like spam.
• chatmasta 3y ago
  I'd be curious to see what happens if you offer to sell them the domain. (IANAL, maybe this could backfire by making you look like you were squatting for the purpose of selling).
• BrandShield 3y ago
  Hi guys, The above-mentioned letter was not sent by BrandShield or by any of our team members. It seems that our “Language” was copied and used without our consent and\Or approval in an attempt to impersonate an original cease and desist letter written by BrandShield. If in the future you receive any similar correspondence, please contact us at openai@brandshield.com for clarification and we`ll be happy to help. BrandShield
• BrandShield 3y ago
  Hi guys, The above-mentioned letter was not sent by BrandShield or by any of our team members. It seems that our “Language” was copied and used without our consent and\Or approval in an attempt to impersonate an original cease and desist letter written by BrandShield. If in the future you receive any similar correspondence, please contact us at openai@brandshield.com for clarification and we`ll be happy to help. BrandShield
• _448 3y ago
  This reminds me of a conversation with a CEO of an US startup working on Java hardware accelerator. They named their company JEDI, which was an acronym for the IP they had developed. One day they received an email from Lucas Arts objecting to the use of the name JEDI :) The startup had to change its name.
• matemp 3y ago
  https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_aUoGHeoefAJ:https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx%3Fg%3D763049f7-7ef8-4a68-bdb1-2e4fa194b7ad&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_aUoGH... https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/inno/stories/news/2023/05/10/openai-startups-gpt.html https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/inno/stories/news/2... **From the article: "...the actual phrase GPT, standing for generative pre-trained transformer, is a broad term describing the AI technology. The term was first introduced in 2018 in a research paper published by OpenAI, but has since been used to describe any AI model that meet certain criteria. This broad use could cause problems for OpenAI as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office says it can refuse to trademark a term that is 'merely descriptive.'"
  • matemp 3y ago
    I think "ChatGPT" is distinctive to their specific product, but not just "GPT" in general.