Outages Spark 'GPT-6 Astra Has Taken Over' Jokes as Rumors Spread

Amid ChatGPT's major outage, AI community accounts joked that OpenAI had secretly deployed GPT-6 Astra, an AGI-level leap that was 'taking over' AI infrastructure — memes fueled by 404 errors and other anomalies across the internet.

2026-09-03 ~ 2026-09-04 · 2 related posts

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