Comment by postalcoder 5 days ago
Very 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.
Most people don't care about the details. Neither does the media. I've seen national scandals that the media pushed one way disproven during discovery in a legal trial. People only remember headlines, the retractions are never re-published or remembered.
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.
Pretty much every company I’ve worked for in tech over my 25+ year career had a (different) system called prism.
Hehe. You got me. Also “atlas” is another one. Pretty much everyone has a system somewhere called “atlas”.
I never though of that association, not in the slightest, until I read this comment.
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