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)
- 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.
"App" does not rhyme with "Up".
It does if you're from Boston.
Well until you wrote this I never realized it was supposed to be a pun, and I'm a native English speaker...
Soft G in GPT as in Generative (which is what it stands for)... Simple.
You might get away with "Gippity" in some contexts.
An initialism is not exactly an amazing name for a consumer product.