OpenAI is trying to trademark "GPT". What are your thoughts?

I dont personally associate GPT anything with any AI product other than Open AI anyway.

In the future this will essentially be like Googling something, and no one will use the GPT part of the term. total waste of money if you ask me. also open AI implies that it is open source, so trademarking it would be more hurtful to the brand identity.

As ChatGPT went viral, GPT did transition from being a technical term - specifically referring to how the transformer is structured and trained - into a marketing term. At this point I expect more than 9/10 people could not say what GPT stands for. I think we see an uptick in people referring to large language models and generative AI in a broader sense. As a company we are avoiding using GPT in our naming convention and focusing on building our own brand.

Well the term  "GPT" has been also used in other generative LLMs which were developed by different companies so that may be an issue (most notably EleutherAI). In any case it would be wise to have a fallback position if your product uses the term GP in case this happens. As previously mentioned however by another esteemed commenter, the term may lose its popularity and appeal in the immediate future so this would not be much of an issue. More generic AI associated terms can be used to market the product to be on the safe side.

yes, it does refer to specific class of transformer architecture but OpenAI was the first to introduce the acronym GPT in 2018. They are also not trying to trademark the full name: Generative Pre trained Transformers. To qualify for trademark protection, the acronym must not be descriptive and consumers must not be able to recognize them as synonymous with a particular product. One of the tests the trademant offices uses is if the regular user will likely view the full descriptive name and the acronym as synonymous. As mentioned above most consumers associate GPT with the OpenAI company not the original meaning. Of course this would create huge headaches for companies like EleutherAI (GTP-J) and Salesforce (Einstein GTP) who would argue they are using the acronym descriptively.

I know this is going to sound crazy, but people should consider making products without using GPT or LLMs. We just launched Super Teacher (https://www.producthunt.com/post...) which is an AI tutor that actually, literally can successfully teach children reading and math and much more, and it doesn't use a single solitary bit of GPT.

Yes of course they should. A lot of people are already creating clickbait products by adding GPT to their name but in reality, those are trash. So, good move. It will cleanup the trash dump caused by small businesses companies and freelancer developers. PH itself is filled with those trashy tools these days.

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Seems like a good candidate for trademark dilution

Why are they allowed to rip data from everyone, and then no one is allowed to use GPT?