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Re:OpenAI Brings ChatGPT to iOS by jameshart on Thursday May 18, 2023 @02:46PM (#35992353)
Here’s an interesting real-time shift in language happening.

You just referred to these things as ‘chat apps’.

And that seems reasonable - they use a chat interface.

But they aren’t ‘chat apps’ as we would have understood them a few months ago. They don’t let you chat with people. They let you chat with an LLM.

Is the word ‘chat’ changing its meaning?

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Re:OpenAI Brings ChatGPT to iOS by personjerry on Thursday May 18, 2023 @02:52PM (#35992422)
The term "chatbot" has been around for a while so it's not really new to "chat" with a bot rather than a human
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Re:OpenAI Brings ChatGPT to iOS by wahnfrieden on Thursday May 18, 2023 @02:48PM (#35992381)
it changed the moment the product and api were named chatgpt …
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Re:OpenAI Brings ChatGPT to iOS by alvah on Thursday May 18, 2023 @09:42PM (#35996777)
"Is the word ‘chat’ changing its meaning?"

Judging by the number of recently-launched apps that invite the user to "chat with PDFs" or "chat with documents", it would appear so.

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