OpenAI's ad for its latest model looks straight out of the movie 'WALL-E' — and people have thoughts
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Astra’s positioning around ordering food, listing items on eBay, and spinning up games is normalizing full-stack life logistics as an AI use case, and the public is already reading it through a dystopian lens. If you’re building on these assistants, assume a cultural ceiling around “lazy automation” and design for agency and control, not passive dependence.
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