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		wongarsu on April 24, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenAI has applied for “GPT” trademark with USPTO ChatGPT is fine as a name, it's pretty distinct. But GPT2, GPT3, GPT4 is OpenAI using the term GPT as if they are the only ones making them. And apart from EleutherAI nobody really challenged that naming conventions so far.

vt100 on April 25, 2023 | [–]

Like trademarking DOS

zvolsky on April 24, 2023 | [–]

If the product name was OpenAI Transformer, naming the versions OAT2, OAT3, OAT4, and ChatOAT wouldn't be an issue.

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