alt Hacker NewsVery unfortunately named. OpenAI probably (and likely correctly) estimated that 13 years is enough time after the Snowden leaks to use "prism" for a product but, for me, the word is permanently tainted.
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This was my first thought as well. Prism is a cool name, but I'd never ever use it for a technical product after those leaks, ever.
I'd think that most people in science would associate the name with an optical prism. A single large political event can't override an everyday physical phenomenon in my head.
Guessing that Ai came up with the name based on the description of the product.
Perhaps, like the original PRISM programme, behind the door is a massive data harvesting operation.
I suspect that name recognition for PRISM as a program is not high at the population level.
Pretty much every company I’ve worked for in tech over my 25+ year career had a (different) system called prism.
Surprised they didn't do something trendy like Prizm or OpenPrism while keeping it closed source code.
Or the JavaScript ORM.
I never though of that association, not in the slightest, until I read this comment.
this was my first thought as well.
I followed the Snowden stuff fairly closely and forgot, so I bet they didn't think about it at all and if they did they didn't care and that was surely the right call.
Anecdotally, I have mentioned PRISM to several non-techie friends over the years and none of them knew what I was talking about, they know 'Snowden' but not 'PRISM'. The amount of people who actually cared about the Snowden leaks is practically a rounding error