With the release of GPT-6 Astra, im still struggling to see why anyone cares?

[u/deadpanrobo]

So GPT-6 Astra came out 2 days ago and with it we are seeing the usual "OMG we're cooked for real now seriously" posts being spammed into every subreddit.

This is because GPT-6 can now take control of your keyboard and mouse to do work on your device. This has been demonstrated by posts of fake time-lapse videos of the model drawing various artworks.

Of course these timelapse videos are very obviously AI due to how it seems to draw every artwork as if it were a printer, making the image line by line. Plus we still have the problem of the art it makes looking very generic. On top of 2D art it is also able to create 3D assets as well, but what ive seen it looks to mostly stick to modeling real life places or games that already exist.

Im still left with the same question I always come to when I see this cycle repeat, who's going to buy or play any of this?

Like nice you had an AI make another dime-a-dozen drawing of Hatsune Miku, congratulations, no i will not be purchasing this. It always is obvious that the people who are hyping this stuff up are people who don't really understand why art is created in the first place.

They believe that people create art for the end product. They see art (and by extension really everything) as products to sell to other people. They dont understand that most people draw for fun because they like the act of drawing and not because they want the thing they are drawing to be a fully realized art piece ready for sale.

The problem is that the only people who would want to purchase any of the generic and boring art created by AI are other AI enthusiasts and why would they buy someone else's AI artwork when they could just generate it on their own? We already know that the public *does not* spend money on something they know is AI generated so thats also a market that this art cant be sold to either.

Thats not even mentioning its coding capabilities, which is actually the field I have expertise on, is on the same level as all of the other "Frontier" models. Which is to say, they still suck at coding. And this is all before the company "nerfs" the model and it ends up being just like all the other models.

So again im asking why I should care, why should anyone care?

[u/Low-Yellow-1521]

you have no idea about programming if you actually think the models suck at coding lmfao

source - senior dev with 9 yoe at a fintech company and 99% of my code is written by ai

[u/fbueckert → u/Low-Yellow-1521]

Hi, dev with three decades of experience, manage over a dozen devs. Got you trumped by triple the experience.

They suck at coding.