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by jjmarr 595 days ago
ChatGPT is an amazing name. Extremely percussive.
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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.

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.
ChatBLT would’ve been more honest.
How do you pronounce it? G as in Gif or G as in jpeg? Chat-gee-pee-tee? Chat-guh-pt? Chat-Gipity?
I like to use both gee-pee-tee and the Primeagen style "chat jippity" interchangeably, depending on who I'm talking to.
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.