ChatGPT
English
Etymology
Etymology tree
Middle English generatyve, generatyf, generatif
Latin transformo
Old French transformer
Middle French transfourmerbor.
Middle English transformen
English transform
English ChatGPT
From chat + GPT (“generative pre-trained transformer”). First attested in 2022.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃætˌd͡ʒiːpiːˈtiː/
Audio (US): (file)
Proper noun
ChatGPT
- A popular chatbot based on a large language model created by OpenAI.
- 2025 March 25, Rachel Hall, “Heavy ChatGPT users tend to be more lonely, suggests research”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 August 2025:
- Heavy users of ChatGPT tend to be lonelier, more emotionally dependent on the AI tool and have fewer offline social relationships, new research suggests.
- 2025 March 27, Madison Malone Kircher, “People Love Studio Ghibli. But Should They Be Able to Recreate It?”, in The New York Times[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 March 2025:
- By Thursday, Ms. Berganza said ChatGPT appeared to have tightened restrictions on what images users were allowed to Ghiblify.
Verb
ChatGPT (third-person singular simple present ChatGPTs or ChatGPT's, present participle ChatGPTing or ChatGPT'ing or ChatGPT-ing, simple past and past participle ChatGPTed or ChatGPT'd or ChatGPT'ed or ChatGPT-ed)
- (ambitransitive, Internet slang) To use ChatGPT; to create or generate (something) with the help of ChatGPT. [from late 2022]
- I ChatGPTed a bedtime story for my son.
- 2023 February 5, Kathryn Parsons, “Boom times are back in San Francisco’s tech mecca”, in The Sunday Times[3], archived from the original on 25 April 2026:
- Coffee shops-cum-meeting-spots dotted across the city are teeming (Equator, Blue Bottle and Saint Frank). Caffeine-fuelled, lactose-intolerant, macadamia milk latte-drinking young folk are journalling, manifesting, coding, ChatGPT-ing and pitching their ideas.
- 2025 October 12, Alexandra Jones, quoting Rachel, “‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder”, in The Guardian[4], →ISSN, archived from the original on 16 December 2025:
- But she’d been “Chatfished” before, so when the gap between his real and digital selves failed to close on their second date, she called it off. “I’d already been ChatGPT-ed into bed at least once. I didn’t want it to happen again.”
Italian
Noun
ChatGPT m (invariable)
Japanese
Pronunciation
Proper noun
ChatGPT • (Chattojīpītī)
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English ChatGPT.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌʃa.t͡ʃiˌʒeˌpeˈte/, /ˌʃat͡ʃˌʒeˌpeˈte/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌʃat͡ʃˌʒeˌpeˈte/, /ˌʃa.t͡ʃiˌʒeˌpeˈte/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˌʃatˌʒeˌpeˈte/
Proper noun
ChatGPT m
- ChatGPT (LLM chatbot)
Noun
ChatGPT m (countable and uncountable, plural ChatGPTs)
- (informal, loosely) ChatGPT (any AI chatbot or software)
- Meus alunos só entregam trabalhos feitos pelo ChatGPT. É um absurdo. ― My students only send in assignments made by ChatGPT. It’s outrageous.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English ChatGPT.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (chiefly Latin America, approximating English) /ˌt͡ʃad ʝipiˈti/ [ˌt͡ʃað̞ ʝi.piˈt̪i] (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay)
- IPA(key): (chiefly Latin America, approximating English) /ˌt͡ʃad ʃipiˈti/ [ˌt͡ʃað̞ ʃi.piˈt̪i] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): (chiefly Latin America, approximating English) /ˌt͡ʃad ʒipiˈti/ [ˌt͡ʃað̞ ʒi.piˈt̪i] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- IPA(key): (chiefly Spain, phonetic) /ˌt͡ʃad xepeˈte/ [ˌt͡ʃað̞ xe.peˈt̪e]
- Syllabification: Chat‧G‧P‧T
Proper noun
ChatGPT m
- (often with the definite article) ChatGPT (the chatbot)
Noun
ChatGPT m (plural ChatGPTs)
- (often with the definite article) ChatGPT (any chatbot)