To be fair, the name "ChatGPT" has quite a bit of mindshare and I've found many non-technical folks referring to any generative AI product as "ChatGPT" or "GPT". Yet, if you asked any single one of them what "GPT" stood for, they'd have no clue.

I don't recall which interviews I saw it stated in, but I believe Sam said in one or two of his world tour stops, where he stated they deliberately have gone with a technical name instead of a human name to help remind those using it that it's not a person. So I think that coupled with the mindshare (as others have stated) it already holds, makes a lot of sense to stick with it.

Doesn't seem like a problem to me. Many brands are acronyms that are meaningless, too technical or arbitrary. Very common for cars for instance, how about a BMW X5 V8 SUV?

Plus, "generative pre-trained transformer" sounds futuristic, which seems like a fitting brand image for OpenAI.

Better that than do a silly rename ala X.

And yet in a way I find this refreshing

I think that's actually crucial in that they want to trademark this otherwise generic term

I think it might be the ubiquity of the term "GPT" as it relates to OpenAI from a public branding perspective.

Before coming into mainstream I was always referring as GTP ..