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It'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.
by genshii 1y ago
It'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