Guys i think this is it we have reached AGI i mean with this new GPT-6 ASTRA launch it's so bizarre and i think the reason for today's chatgpt server down that many users faced this release might be the reason for that i mean this model absolutely crushes every benchmarkd and also recently launched Fable 5.1 i think sama finally did it!!!

Okay, I’m genuinely kind of blown away by this.

GPT-6 Astra is apparently getting really good at electrical engineering and hardware work, especially the kind of stuff around circuit design, verification, and chip architecture.

Like, we’re talking about an AI that can start doing engineering stuff.

Lotta people say AI can only do game dev and write essays, but this proves otherwise.

The chip-design potential is what really has me interested. Being able to throw it a design problem, constraints, schematics, architecture questions, or verification issues and have it work through the actual engineering tradeoffs is pretty damn wild.

And honestly? If this keeps improving, I could absolutely see AI replacing a huge amount of traditional electrical engineering work. Where will automation lead us? AI getting this capable at actual hardware engineering is absolutely insane.

We are living in some weird-ass times.

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So I’m really new to this world of AI. I don’t know much about it. But I’ve always had these stories in my head, like an internal book. One day I decided to try to get some AI help with actually writing them out and plotting and stuff like that.

I’m using ChatGPT. It is largely a disaster. I have to handhold it so much. It might as well be crippled. I seriously can’t see what anyone uses this for successfully.

It doesn’t matter how many rules I give it, I crafted a thing called the Bible with all the rules for world building that I need, I have it scan the text after we brainstorm an entire story, before during and after, and it still fails.

It’s gone to the point where I will literally spend days trying to limp to complete two small chapters and a story. Days.

Is there something better for story writing? The method I like so far is kind of build a story, I call it the spine, then I feed the spine to the AI and it’s supposed to generate and flesh out the actual story.

I know this is long, but I’m really hoping someone can help me. I’m beyond frustrated. It simply does not function.

It’s really starting to piss me off. Could we just stop?

To those people : if we started saying “dumb as a neurotypical,” would you like that? I imagine not, and you’d be right. Because in both cases, we’re using a neurological category as a synonym for something negative.

Reddit is the Internet. The Internet is a phone or a PC. So you have at least enough time to think for two seconds about what you’re writing and the consequences it might have before clicking “Post.”

So please, stop doing this. It’s genuinely hurtful.

not to mention the breaking containments or whatever is yet another sort of garbage jargon, obviously the llms are not only virtualised and but most likely also physcially gapped machines, otherwise it would have crawled into database parent folder and taken offline atleast one of the llm providers, which would be funny though

Not boding well for humanity.

So, today I learned a pretty expensive lesson.

I was configuring Yazi and asked ChatGPT how to reload/refresh it. It confidently told me:

I used it.

Later I found out that, in Yazi, Ctrl + R doesn't mean "reload". It can invert the current selection.

I had actually been about to ask ChatGPT how to select multiple files, because I didn't really understand Yazi's selection system yet.

Long story short: I ended up permanently deleting around 270 GB from my /home partition.

The worst part is that when I later confronted ChatGPT about it, it checked and confirmed that Ctrl + R was not a reload shortcut. So the original answer was simply wrong and given with complete confidence.

And yes, before anyone says it: I know I ultimately pressed the keys that performed the deletion. I'm not claiming ChatGPT physically deleted my files. But I asked for a specific shortcut, got a wrong answer, trusted it, and that wrong information directly changed what I did inside a file manager.

So I guess my question is:

How much do you people actually trust ChatGPT when it gives you technical instructions?

Because apparently my answer was: enough to lose 270 GB before learning that "confident" and "correct" are two completely different things.

one time where I can justify an ai being angry with humanity. britney deserved way better.

It’s near the end of the year, and I’ve been shopping for a new car in Guatemala, hoping to find a great deal on a leftover model. Apparently my algorithms have noticed, because social media has entered the room with an absurd amount of car ads, which I’ve been happily clicking.

Last week, I clicked a paid ad from Chevrolet Guatemala for the Groove, which opened a WhatsApp conversation with their Meta-verified account.

I asked about the manual Groove and was quoted Q154,990. I replied that it was above my budget. They asked what my budget was, and I mentioned that the Suzuki Fronx I was considering cost around Q115,000. Although, at this point I'd also started looking at used cars, after spending far too much time calculating car-loan interest and wondering whether I really wanted to spend that much on a new car.

Chevrolet offered me three alternatives closer to my budget:

Tahoe — Q104,990

Suburban — Q109,990

Traverse — Q55,990, “currently on promotion”

Well. Q55,990 got my attention.

I'd never really considered a Traverse, so I looked it up and was pleasantly surprised. Since I was specifically hunting for year-end leftover deals, I thought perhaps this was one of those last remaining units. So I replied that at that price I would buy it immediately by bank transfer, so I would not miss out on the deal.

We then started discussing the actual purchase because I wasn't in town that day, but could make it to the Majadas dealership the following day. We discussed availability, color preference and payment options. Chevrolet told me an adviser would contact me to complete the purchase.

I repeatedly asked for confirmation of the price and also specifically confirmed that it was in quetzales. Yes. Q55,990. Current promotion. In quetzales. At one point the chatbot said the exact model year would depend on the inventory available, giving 2024 or 2025 as examples.

Eventually, a human salesperson entered the picture and confirmed that, yes, I had been talking to a chatbot. He also explained that the correct price was actually in dollars and said he would report the issue so they could correct it. My Q55,990 Traverse was actually $55,990. In quetzales? Q506,143.30 + plates.

To be clear, I wasn’t testing or trying to trick the chatbot. I thought I was simply chatting with Chevrolet about buying a car, and apparently a Lovely Bot found me the automotive deal of the century.

With everything in the news about bots, encountering one myself also made me wonder about mistakes. What happens when an automated sales system gets something wrong? A vehicle price. An interest rate. A warranty period. An included service. A safety feature. A financing condition. Especially when those answers are coming from a verified account set up by the company to represent it and deal directly with someone prepared to make a purchase.

*Note: Prices in the title have been converted from Guatemalan quetzales to approximate U.S. dollars for context. The amounts in the post and screenshots are the original prices quoted to me in quetzales.

EDIT: Removed “rogue” because apparently that word was doing more work than intended.

Made by feeding the video into Sol with the prompt: "edit the video to add an accurate cost meter as Astra is used. Be conservative. We don't want people to think that Astra is too expensive"

This is what we had until few weeks ago, with hourly and daily limits that would turn it into the mini unless u were willing to wait

But now..? Now we have ONLY this:

And let me tell you going from full 5.5 to 5.6 luna (which is either mini or nano version) is a total downgrade, 5.5 was never hallucinating things and suggestions for programming stuff, but 5.6 luna? it's completely hallucinating syntax and stuff to write that ofc can't work.

And before some of you will start talking about free account etc. The problem I am reporting here is that they randomly decide to nerf and downgrade what they gave their users at first, and why?

Why they couldn't always gave us only mini and nano models? Why giving us something really good first and then took that away? To convince me to actually spend the money?

Well flash news this shit is doing the opposite effect, it makes me want to stop using chat gpt completely, crazy isn't it?

Alright codex and ChatGPT conversion is currently not working and shows they are trying to fix and I have been having my work due and the application just gave up on responding and started showing device check registration fail. I feel like the timing is very weird

Update: Tried switching to Claude and that is down as well including Grok

The difficult part of making “Tuba Dancing” was not generating individual shots. It was keeping three instrument-headed musicians, one ice-cream vendor, one cart and the same coastal town consistent across the complete story.

I used ChatGPT to develop the narrative, build the shot list, translate story beats into timed video prompts, track 23 visual references and rewrite the scenes that failed. The clips were generated through Higgsfield/Seedance 2.5, then selected, rearranged and synchronized manually in CapCut.

It became less of a one-click generation and more of a conversation between creative direction, generation and editing.

Music was made out of a long experiment in Suno 5.0, about 3 months ago. Extract into Stems then edit in FL Studio.

Has anyone else started using ChatGPT more like a production coordinator or creative director than a simple content generator?

Do you think GPT 5.6 Sol is on the same level as Jarvis 1 from Iron Man, this includes all abilities to plug any information in, having computer use, all necessary hardware to connect to it, etc. You can not bring in features from any future Iron Man movies.

If you feel like another AI Model is better you can bring that into the mix too.

If you don't feel like it's strong enough on it's own, do you think we have the same capabilities as Jarvis with all AI tools and models kept into consideration. e.g. Gemini Pro at home etc.

I need to get this off my chest because I know a lot of you have been running into the same wall.

I've been using ChatGPT for about two years now, across different kinds of work, and something has shifted hard in the last while. What used to be a genuinely useful tool has turned into a minefield of refusals, over-cautious rewrites, and moral lecturing on requests that have nothing objectionable about them at all. This isn't about jailbreaking or trying to get the model to do anything shady. This is about basic, everyday tasks getting blocked, softened, or "reframed" until they're useless.

From what's been documented (including by OpenAI themselves at points), the system runs on a stack of blocklists, keyword triggers, and downstream classifiers that flag and downgrade responses before they even reach you. It's not one filter, it's layers of them, stacked on top of each other, and the result is a model that treats users like suspects by default rather than adults capable of deciding what they need.

And it's gotten noticeably worse for users in Europe specifically. Whether it's a direct response to EU regulatory pressure or just an overcorrection out of legal caution, the practical effect is the same: European users are dealing with a significantly more locked-down version of the tool than before. Doesn't matter what your job is, writer, developer, researcher, small business owner, whatever, you're hitting the same walls now.

What's frustrating me the most isn't even the refusals themselves. It's that when the model messes up, it doesn't correct course, it doubles down. Ask it to fix something, follow a clear instruction, or stick to a format you've specified, and instead of adjusting, it sometimes just repeats the same mistake or adds a new layer of "safety" hedging on top of a request that was never risky in the first place. It stops listening to what you're actually asking for.

I'm not saying moderation shouldn't exist. Nobody's asking for a tool with zero guardrails. But there's a difference between reasonable safety design and a system so maximalist in its caution that it can't tell the difference between an actual problem and a normal request.

Curious how many of you have noticed the same pattern, especially other EU users. Is this just me, or has it gotten measurably worse for you too in the last few months?

i pay for plus and the response ive been getting in the last 2 days are ridiculous. this is not thinking model level even though i set it so high. for work its not worth 1 cent of my money. if it stays so low effort i will switch to claude. i cannot use this. anyone else feeling this?

Is OpenAI trying to get me attached to ChatGPT or something?

Like, come on, humans use reaction emojis because typing a reaction is slow. But why would an LLM need to use reaction emojis as well? Just generate it out?

Chatgpt won't generate images. I'm not out of free generations, because this is the first time I'm using it today. Every time I retry, the time on the pop-up changes to whatever time it is right now.