[nuz]

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)

[soneca]

I 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]

I'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]

> "App" does not rhyme with "Up".

It does if you're from Boston.

[crtasm]

But if you had heard people saying it like this for years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJmqCKtJnxM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whassup%3F

[bdjsiqoocwk]

Sure, 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.

[RugnirViking]

Same, and I just figured it out NOW. And I use it every day....

[com2kid]

> - 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...

[HPsquared]

All those super generic .COMs always make me think "probably a domain squatter". Easy to remember though I guess.

[jjmarr]

ChatGPT is an amazing name. Extremely percussive.

[BoorishBears]

An 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.

[basch]

It 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.

[Eggpants]

ChatBLT would’ve been more honest.

[fragmede]

How do you pronounce it? G as in Gif or G as in jpeg? Chat-gee-pee-tee? Chat-guh-pt? Chat-Gipity?

[techjamie]

I like to use both gee-pee-tee and the Primeagen style "chat jippity" interchangeably, depending on who I'm talking to.

[lozf]

Hard 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.

[bdangubic]

chat is basically prepping us for the future where the only “thing” we will chatting with is “AI” :)