Are 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.
replyThe 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.
replyI'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".
replyChatGPT is commonly referred to as Chappie (チャッピー) in Japan.
replyI’ve heard people call Gemini as Cemile (Jamila), and ChatGPT as Chipitty in Turkey.
replypeople in the industry, especially those who work for oai, refer to it as "chat"
replyat least in the ai industry, chat is like kleenex
I'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
replyI’ve heard this recently too.
replyIt’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.
This has been a thing well before chat.com even among engineers at our company.
replyChat Gee Pee Tee is a mouthful.
Dhamesh Shah (Hubspot founder) grabbed chat.com and then in late 2024 sold to openai
replyI've heard people affectionately call ChatGPT 'chatty'
replyJust redirects to chatgpt.com
replySurely the way streamers talk to "chat"? I've never heard anyone call ChatGPT "chat".
replyNo, there are people who will say "ask Chat to explain it to you" in reference to ChatGPT.
replyAll the people younger than 28yo in France, for sure.
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