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TIL openai owns chat.com I hung out with my parents this weekend and heard them talking about "chat", as a noun. I assumed they were talking about ChatGPT; the
by tyre 24d ago
TIL openai owns chat.com
I hung out with my parents this weekend and heard them talking about "chat", as a noun. I assumed they were talking about ChatGPT; there being a literal chat.com makes sense why they'd call it that.
- anon7000 24d agoJust redirects to chatgpt.com
- rpozarickij 24d agoI've seen people using "chat" to refer to ChatGPT because it's easier/simpler. I'm pretty sure an average person has no idea that chat.com will redirect you to chatgpt.com (or what a redirect is for that matter). It's similar to how people were calling the COVID-19 pandemic or the virus itself "covid".
- parl_match 24d agopeople in the industry, especially those who work for oai, refer to it as "chat" at least in the ai industry, chat is like kleenex
- zxexz 24d agoI've heard it as shorthand, in-context. Never heard it being chat-as-in-kleenex. I've supposedly been in the industry since before ChatGPT. Maybe that's where I went wrong :D
- falsemyrmidon 24d agoGuess I'm not in the industry enough lmao
- kachnuv_ocasek 24d agoChatGPT is commonly referred to as Chappie (チャッピー) in Japan.
- ozgung 24d agoI’ve heard people call Gemini as Cemile (Jamila), and ChatGPT as Chipitty in Turkey.
- aeon_ai 24d agoSome older folks I know call it Chat Jippity non-ironically
- aznews 24d agoMany of my non tech friends would call it Chatty! Tbh I like it better than ChatGPT
- KptMarchewa 24d agoChat Jippity.
- sroerick 23d agoI just say jippity or sometimes "the jippity"
- rsstack 24d agoI've heard in my home country Geppetto for ChatGPT. I'm not sure if it's still a popular term there.
- smelendez 24d agoI’ve heard this recently too. It’s confusing because of the streamer convention of referring to their actively chatting audience as “chat,” which had also entered broader slang use. I saw one online use that seemed ambiguous, but I realized it referred to ChatGPT and that the poster was the exact type of guy who would be totally unaware of streamer culture despite being my age.
- idiotsecant 24d agoIt's not confusing so much as it is genius marketing. They're hooking into a relatively widespread slang word and turning it into their product.
- fny 24d agoThis has been a thing well before chat.com even among engineers at our company. Chat Gee Pee Tee is a mouthful.
- IshKebab 24d agoSurely the way streamers talk to "chat"? I've never heard anyone call ChatGPT "chat".
- ajkjk 24d agoNo, there are people who will say "ask Chat to explain it to you" in reference to ChatGPT.
- flaburgan 24d agoAll the people younger than 28yo in France, for sure.
- kolp 24d agoThat could be because to say ChatGPT in French sounds like "Chat I farted" (Chat j'ai pété)
- KptMarchewa 24d agoisn't chat a cat in france
- JanMa 24d agoI've heard people affectionately call ChatGPT 'chatty'
- mailarchis 24d agoDhamesh Shah (Hubspot founder) grabbed chat.com and then in late 2024 sold to openai https://x.com/dharmesh/status/1854307883304792294 https://x.com/dharmesh/status/1854307883304792294
- chirau 24d agoAre you sure they were using "chat" to refer to ChatGPT? I have noticed many kids now use chat to refer to the collective audience/chat participants, and then gets used rhetorically even when no literal chatroom exists. A streamer says things like “Chat, what do you think?” or “Chat, are we cooked?” That usage has spread well beyond literal livestream chats, particularly among younger people.
- testdelacc1 24d agoThe streamer is talking to the people in the stream’s chat room. Every streamer refers to all the people in the chat room as “Chat”. Kids these days use the same collective noun for everyone in their group chat.
- m4rtink 24d agoVtubers often have a specific name for the people watching the stream, based on their own back story + usually also some word play.