OpenAI Gives Influencers Early Astra Access, Pro Users Balk and Cancel
techartist_ · x · 2026-09-05
A user who had just praised ChatGPT Astra's results and pledged to happily keep a ChatGPT Pro subscription has reversed course over OpenAI's access policy: Astra went to influencers first while even paid Pro accounts face delayed access. Calling it unacceptable second-hand treatment, he says he won't renew and will go entirely with Grok and Kimi in the absence of Claude and ChatGPT.
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