Is GPT-6 Astra painting a portrait in Canva actually unimpressive? A Reddit breakdown
meh_coder · reddit · 2026-09-06
A Reddit user argues that the viral GPT-6 Astra timelapse of the model painting a portrait in Canva isn't that impressive: Astra works from screenshots, not a live video feed, and its precise grasp of color values means the task is essentially color-matching against the palette and copying positions — not human-like painting.
What the author finds genuinely impressive instead is the model's long-horizon planning and backtracking, plus browser automation that has been possible for a while. The post invites pushback on the reasoning.
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