Unverified claim: GPT-6 "Astra" cracked a 108-year-old German WWI cipher
CurieuxExplorer · x · 2026-09-21
An unverified claim circulating on X says ChatGPT's GPT-6 model, codenamed Astra, decrypted a 108-year-old encrypted radio message sent by the German army in 1918. The claim originates from a Turkish-language tweet with no OpenAI confirmation or independent verification.
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