One of the demos of Astra's computer use abilities in their blog post (https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/) has it fill out a Form 1040 for a relatively simple tax situation.

The problem is that it's wrong. For one, this is clearly not the f1040 PDF you get off the IRS website; it's a seemingly-AI-concocted HTML rendering of it with a completely different layout, hosted on a local web server. I doubt that the IRS would accept this if you printed it and mailed it in.

Second, almost everyone puts whole dollars in on their forms. That Astra chose otherwise is a bit unconventional. But there's an even more glaring problem - at a taxable income of $36700 you are obligated to pay $4169, not $4165.50 [in tax](https://www.irs.gov/publications/p17). Astra appears to have used the marginal tax rate formulas but the IRS requires you to use the tax table.

Straight to jail; claiming an extra $2.50 refund is a lot of money.

I am a big proponent of AI and I think it won't be long before it takes over most white-collar work. But it's hard to say that Astra is an AGI model if it doesn't do basic validation of its output.

Claude is also experiencing errors. May be connected.

GPT Astra benchmarks have been released

Codex, ChatGPT API, and ChatGPT web are all experiencing major outage!! Astra today!!!

I fine-tuned the good-old SDXL on 60 photographs from my childhood, using a limited family archive as the dataset through which to revisit that period of my life. Rather than reconstructing those images faithfully, the model produces unstable variations: spaces, faces and fragments that feel familiar without necessarily having existed.

This speculative study treats generative hallucination as an analogue for recollection: not the retrieval of a preserved image, but the reconstruction of a past from incomplete traces. This resonates with contemporary accounts of episodic memory as a reconstructive rather than reproductive process. The model becomes a kind of externalized mnemonic apparatus, situated somewhere between archive, memory and imagination.

Tools used: Kohya, WarpFusion, TouchDesigner, Premiere, After Effects, Ableton Live, Expressive Osmose, Soma Cosmos.

More experiments, project files, and tutorials, through YouTube, Instagram, Patreon, and Uisato Studio.

I was pretty excited for Astra until I actually read the fine print.

On the $100 Pro plan, you only get 50 GPT-6 Pro messages a week and 200 for the $200 plan. That’s basically 7 a day, and apparently the allowance is shared with Sol Pro too.

Maybe that’s enough for some people, but for $100 a month I expected a lot more access to the flagship model.

Am I the only one who thinks that’s pretty weak?

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001354-gpt-56-and-gpt-6-pro-in-chatgpt

With all AI being down, I was unable to start working this morning using codex and now I don't know what to do. Should I pace back and forth in my bedroom? What do I do if I want to read? If I open a book, I don't know how to read anymore without it having being read to me. If I go on a walk outside, how will I know how to breathe? Do I put my right foot in front of my left foot or my left front of my right foot?

As an AI native software engineer and programmer, I'm currently up for a job in a role that requires me to use AI. Will I no longer have a job? I gave up my whole career in filmmaking to focus on AI and software development. Now that that's gone, what will I do? I guess I'll go back to using Uber. But wait, Uber has AI and now that might be down too. What will I do? Please help.

*satire and sarcasm.

It's over for humanity

I use ChatGPT almost entirely for creative writing, and everything in the launch material is computer use, agentic coding and cyber capabilities. Nothing about prose.

If you've had access, I'm curious about the usual failure points rather than benchmarks: does it still collapse into the same rhythms over a long piece, does it hold a character voice across a long context, does it push back on a weak idea or just execute it. Also whether the reasoning effort settings change anything for writing, since those are presumably tuned for other tasks.

As title says, im getting 404 on my replies.

Does anyone have a little bit more information? Will Plus users like me get access to Astra in regular chat, or will it only be available for us in Work and Codex? Right now, I'm seeing conflicting information.