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>My students call it “Chat,” a cute nickname they all seem to have agreed on at some point. This instantly paints the author as someone out of touch with their
by nancyminusone 1y ago
>My students call it “Chat,” a cute nickname they all seem to have agreed on at some point.
This instantly paints the author as someone out of touch with their students. For the record, it comes from streamers/Twitch a la "Chat, is this real?"
I'm not saying everyone needs to know every meme, but starting off with this does taint the rest of the piece a little.
- genshii 1y agoIt's both. I've seen people both in real life (coworkers) and online refer to ChatGPT as "Chat", completely independent of the Twitch "chat" meme.
- nancyminusone 1y agoHuh, everyone I know appends -gpt to the end of things to designate AI. Probably because "chat" is already taken. I suppose there are multiple usages though.
- BoxOfRain 1y agoYeah I've seen people refer to it as "Chat" too who've nothing to do with Twitch.
- danso 1y agoMy first reflex at this was revulsion, similar to my reaction to “crypto” becoming a term for both cryptography and everything bitcoin-adjacent. But now I think the conflation is pretty cute and apt. LLM chatbots, for better or worse. are aiming to replace actual human chat, so might as well use language that makes it explicit
- zamadatix 1y agoNah, it's just inconvenient to say "Chat-G-P-T". Particularly in voice mode. If it had officially been GoogleMGL people would have still say "Google it" despite the lack of live streaming reference.