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Back in 2012, a user published a tweet reading “Stop chat gpt!!” despite the fact that OpenAI’s ChatGPT did not debut until a decade later in 2022.
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<p class="fact_check_info_description">The social media post is completely genuine, having gone live on Twitter (now known as X) on October 5, 2012. However, any assumptions about the post's actual intent are speculative, and it is entirely unrelated to time travel or OpenAI's modern AI tool.</p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span>An online rumor began spreading in August 2026 regarding an ancient social media message that seemingly demanded an end to ChatGPT—the generative AI chatbot released by OpenAI in 2022. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="https://perma.cc/CNL5-E4PH"><span>Online users</span></a><span> reportedly uncovered an archived </span><a href="https://perma.cc/8UB5-XM8K"><span>post on Twitter</span></a><span> (present-day X) featuring the exact phrase, "Stop chat gpt!!" The shared screenshot clearly displayed an October 5, 2012 timestamp. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Naturally, the seemingly clairvoyant tweet went viral. Some individuals joked that it was merely coincidental Indonesian slang that happened to mirror ChatGPT in hindsight, while another commenter quipped, "I'm indonesian, don't listen to this guy she is a time traveller 100%."</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span>As it turns out, the post is entirely real. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>An account belonging to a user named "Marieanne" (@Meytrullers17) genuinely </span><a href="https://x.com/Meytrullers17/status/254231749758943233?s=20"><span>published</span></a><span> the message on October 5, 2012 (</span><a href="https://perma.cc/KG4E-CQCH"><span>archived here</span></a><span>): "Stop chat gpt!!"</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>As joking observers pointed out by citing "time travel" to explain the strange coincidence, ChatGPT itself did not officially </span><a href="https://chatgpt.ca/blog/when-did-chatgpt-come-out"><span>launch</span></a><span> until late 2022. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>The account in question has long since gone dormant; its final post was made on June 22, 2013. Public profile details indicated the user was based in Indonesia. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>In reply to the viral discovery, some internet sleuths theorized that the phrase might have been connected to the Indonesian slang expression "ga penting,"</span><a href="https://perma.cc/Q46Z-Y3SU"><span> meaning "unimportant,"</span></a><span> which is frequently shortened to "gpt." </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Indonesian digital culture is well-known for its heavy reliance on abbreviations. Marketing agency Illuminate attributes this linguistic habit to </span><a href="https://www.illuminateasia.com/our-work/detail/why-do-indonesians-love-abbreviations"><span>several factors</span></a><span>, including a cultural fondness for wordplay, the expansion of social networking, and the legacy of a "military-led government for 32 years," whose structured communication style fostered widespread use of acronyms. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>While </span><a href="https://trykaiwa.com/blog/indonesian-texting-shortcuts-guide-2026"><span>various</span></a><span> </span><a href="https://keith-travelsinindonesia.blogspot.com/p/glossary-of-indonesian-abbreviations.html"><span>travel</span></a><span> </span><a href="https://www.slangua.com/blog/indonesian-texting-abbreviations-slang"><span>guides</span></a><span> document local text shorthand to help tourists, a search for "gpt" across these glossaries yielded no direct matches.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>However, looking through Marieanne's </span><a href="https://perma.cc/E4XZ-GFY6"><span>historical timeline</span></a><span> reveals other instances where "gpt" appeared, such as a 2012 status update reading, "Stop BC sg gpt tah." </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Furthermore, the same account </span><a href="https://perma.cc/P3TL-F7D9"><span>complained</span></a><span> about receiving spam online, hinting that the command to "stop chat gpt" might have loosely translated to "stop sending useless messages." </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Though these additional posts do not definitively prove the exact meaning behind the viral tweet, they demonstrate that using "gpt" as an abbreviation was part of the user's normal vocabulary rather than a random anomaly. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Efforts to reach the original account holder for comment have thus far been unsuccessful. </span></p>