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I’ve got “normie” friends who I’d bet don’t even know that what Google has at the top of their search results is “AI” results and instead assume it’s just some
by sharkweek 1y ago
I’ve got “normie” friends who I’d bet don’t even know that what Google has at the top of their search results is “AI” results and instead assume it’s just some extension of the normal search results we’ve all gotten used to (knowledge graph)
Every one of them refers to using “ChatGPT” when talking about AI.
How likely is it to stay that way? No idea, but OpenAI has clearly captured a notable amount of mindshare in this new era.
- chii 1y agowhen people started referring to searching the internet as googling, they know their brand has made it. It is the same with chatGPT.
- jandy 1y agoYep, this. I’ve switched to Claude for a while (because I can’t afford max plans for both) and nobody in the real world has any idea what it is I’m talking about. “Oh it’s like ChatGPT?”
- gopheryourshelf 1y agoClaude is also difficult to consistently pronounce for a non-English speaker. Sometimes people dont say that because it can get misinterpreted. ChatGPT is something easy on the the tongue and very difficult to mis-pronounce.
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- viking123 1y agoThe CEO is also more puritan than the pope himself considering the amount of censorship it has. Not sure if they are even interested in marketing to normies though.
- sieve 1y ago> The CEO is also more puritan than the pope himself considering the amount of censorship it has. In that case, you should try OpenAI's gpt-oss! Both models are pretty fast for their size and I wanted to use them to summarize stories and try out translation. But it keeps checking everything against "policy" all the time! I created a jailbreak that works around this, but it still wastes a few hundred tokens talking about policy before it produces useful output.
- gmerc 1y agoSurely someone has abliterated it by now
- MediumOwl 1y agoAh yes, the Latin-originating French name that has a variant at least in every Latin language is hard to pronounce for non-English users.
- suspended_state 1y agohttps://chat.mistral.ai/chat/12da2e83-f3f1-4a47-b432-753cac25219f https://chat.mistral.ai/chat/12da2e83-f3f1-4a47-b432-753cac2... I suspect they chose that name because of the proximity with the word "cloud".
- nasmorn 1y agoI know a lot of people who refer to it as ChatGTP which I assume stands for German treebrained performers
- wltr 1y agoEven I often tell I chatgeepeeteed the result, in the same fashion when I continue saying I googled the result, while actually I used Duck Duck Go. I could ask another LLM provider, but I have no idea how to communicate that properly to a non-technical folks. Heck, I don’t want to communicate that _properly_ to tech peers either. I don’t like these pedantic phrases ‘well, actually … that wasn’t Google, I used DDG for that.’ Sometimes I can say ‘web search,’ but ‘I googled that’ is just more natural thing to say. Same here. I tried saying ‘I asked LLM’ or ‘I asked AI’ but that doesn’t sound right for me. So, in most conversations I say ‘I asked Chat GPT’ and in most of these situations, it feels like the exact provider does not matter, since essentially they are very similar in their nature.
- anon1395 1y ago>I asked AI doesn't sound right for me. That's a you thing.
- wltr 1y agoHey, but it’s not AI!
- vinhcognito 1y agoI like to go with 'I asked my bot|chatbot'
- abustamam 1y agoI cheekily refer to it as Al (like, short for Albert) because Google seems to love to shove Al's overviews in my search results. But when I'm being more serious I'd usually just say "I asked GPT" I have a colleague who just refers to AI as "Chat" which I think is kinda cute, but people also use the term "chat" to refer to... Like, people, or "yall". Or to their stream chat.
- hollerith 1y agoI recently used "an unreliable source that gives fast answers to questions" in a comment here. I think I will keep on using it.
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- bashtoni 1y agoIn the UK, everyone refers to a vacuum as a 'hoover'. They are not the dominant vacuum brand there despite the massive name recognition.
- cwsx 1y agoBAND-AID is another one
- card_zero 1y agoAnd "generic trademark" is the Wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark Huh, bubble wrap, even.
- philipallstar 1y agoTannoy another.
- jb3689 1y agoOn the other hand, no one cares about Velcro or Tupperware
- Naracion 1y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRi8LptvFZY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRi8LptvFZY Video description, from the Velcro brand YouTube channel: Our Velcro Brand Companies legal team decided to clear a few things up about using the VELCRO® trademark correctly – because they’re lawyers and that’s what they do. When you use “velcro” as a noun or a verb (e.g., velcro shoes), you diminish the importance of our brand and our lawyers lose their insert fastening sound. So please, do not say “velcro shoes” (or “velcro wallet” or “velcro gloves”) - we repeat “velcro” is not a noun or a verb. VELCRO® is our brand. #dontsayvelcro
- lkramer 1y agotheir own fault :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_free_flights_promotion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_free_flights_promotion
- prism56 1y agoWhen I talk about any AI usage I do. I just say chatgpt to any friends.