The verbification of ChatGPT: A linguistics-based perspective

On Stanford’s campus, “ChatGPT” has become a verb.

As a linguistics major, I love everything related to language; I could talk for days about words and how we use them. Linguistics, unlike English or language arts courses, is historically very open to innovation and “bad” grammar. In the field’s academic tradition, anything can be a word. The only requirement is that it gets used enough and people generally accept it to have a consistent meaning in communication.

A few examples...