Comment by smelendez
6 hours ago
I’ve heard this recently too.
It’s confusing because of the streamer convention of referring to their actively chatting audience as “chat,” which had also entered broader slang use.
I saw one online use that seemed ambiguous, but I realized it referred to ChatGPT and that the poster was the exact type of guy who would be totally unaware of streamer culture despite being my age.
It's not confusing so much as it is genius marketing. They're hooking into a relatively widespread slang word and turning it into their product.