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I kinda feel like the sort of kiki weird odd name of chatgpt helped it gain traction. People care way less about pleasurable brand names than marketing people t
by nuz 2y ago
I kinda feel like the sort of kiki weird odd name of chatgpt helped it gain traction. People care way less about pleasurable brand names than marketing people think. Just 'chat' is way too generic etc (sounds like many unoriginal SF companies)
- HPsquared 2y agoAll those super generic .COMs always make me think "probably a domain squatter". Easy to remember though I guess.
- bdangubic 2y agochat is basically prepping us for the future where the only “thing” we will chatting with is “AI” :)
- soneca 2y agoI agree. WhatsApp is by far the most popular app in Brazil (of all kinds, not only messengers). Yet… - Its name is unpronounceable for 90% of its users (we short it to ”zap”) - The word itself has unfamiliar letter combinations (“wh” and “pp”). - The intended pun doesn’t work at all, since no one here uses “What’s up” (not even the 10% that understands English) Similar to what happens with “Google” and “Facebook”, btw.
- LeoPanthera 2y agoI'm a native English speaker and I didn't get the "pun" for years. Almost a decade, even. "App" does not rhyme with "Up".
- Arch485 2y ago> "App" does not rhyme with "Up". It does if you're from Boston.
- crtasm 2y agoBut if you had heard people saying it like this for years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJmqCKtJnxM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJmqCKtJnxM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whassup%3F https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whassup%3F
- RugnirViking 2y agoSame, and I just figured it out NOW. And I use it every day....
- bdjsiqoocwk 2y agoSure, but there are countries where the accent of people speaking English makes the pun very obvious. I wonder if the original WhatsApp people were foreigners.
- com2kid 2y ago> - The intended pun doesn’t work at all, since no one here uses “What’s up” (not even the 10% that understands English) Well until you wrote this I never realized it was supposed to be a pun, and I'm a native English speaker...
- jjmarr 2y agoChatGPT is an amazing name. Extremely percussive.
- fragmede 2y agoHow do you pronounce it? G as in Gif or G as in jpeg? Chat-gee-pee-tee? Chat-guh-pt? Chat-Gipity?
- techjamie 2y agoI like to use both gee-pee-tee and the Primeagen style "chat jippity" interchangeably, depending on who I'm talking to.
- lozf 2y agoHard G in GIF as in Graphics (which is what it stands for), Soft G in GPT as in Generative (which is what it stands for)... Simple. You might get away with "Gippity" in some contexts.
- basch 2y agoIt is a great word spoken. Written it is visually identifiable as a symbol. It also seems to break every rule of naming, and is almost nonsensical.
- BoorishBears 2y agoAn sizeable number of people get confused and call it "ChatGTP": enough that you can search "ChatGTP" and find pages of posts and articles misnaming it An initialism is not exactly an amazing name for a consumer product.
- Eggpants 2y agoChatBLT would’ve been more honest.