Astra opens Paint in the browser and draws on command, sparking artist jokes
BLUECOW009 · x · 2026-09-06
- A demo circulating on X shows a user asking Astra to open Paint in the browser and draw something, with the agent actually manipulating the GUI to produce a drawing.
- The quoter jokes that "artists really will be out of a job first" — the result reads more as a fun/absurd demo than professional-grade art, but it's a notable showcase of an AI agent controlling desktop software for creative tasks.
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