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Several foraging guides on Amazon in 2023 shared formatting, phrasing and invented author biographies, and were sold with no indication of how they were written. The New York Mycological Society warned its members off them. Its president, Sigrid Jakob, put the problem plainly: there are hundreds of poisonous fungi in North America and several are deadly, they resemble popular edible species, and a poor description in a book can send someone to eat the wrong one. Every other hallucination on this page is caught by a reader who knows the subject. A beginner's field guide is bought precisely by somebody who cannot check it, which is what makes this category of generated book different from the rest.

Samantha Cole, 404 Media

A genre of AI-generated books on Amazon is scaring foragers and mycologists: cookbooks and identification guides for mushrooms aimed at beginners. [...] Experts are worried that books produced by ChatGPT for sale on Amazon, which target beginner foragers, could end up killing someone.

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Vaibhav Srivastav is at OpenAI, and was at Hugging Face before that, so this is written from inside the team that shipped the model. The five lines in the middle are the part to keep: what to change in your own prompts and AGENTS.md now that Astra follows instructions more closely than the model before it.

Vaibhav (VB) Srivastav 14h

GPT-6 Astra is now available to all Pro, Enterprise and Business Premium users in ChatGPT Work and Codex. It’s also live in the API.

It's a phenomenal model and I love every second working with it!

Astra follows instructions more closely, so revisit your prompts and skills:

> Make “can you…” mean “do it”: finish authorised work and prepare a reviewable result before seeking approval.

> Audit AGENTS.md and skills. Ask it to identify the exact file and rule blocking progress. Prioritise your request over skill guidelines.

> Specify short paragraphs, plain language and phrases to avoid.

> Ask for subagents on independent work when it improves speed or quality.

> Run relevant checks. Repeat or expand only for changes, failures or unresolved concerns.

To push it to it's limits, I gave it a prompt to build a real-scale video fly through of nürburguring track in blender and it did not disappoint!

Enjoy! ✨
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Miguel Ángel is a product engineer at HeyGen, and HyperFrames is HeyGen's own product, so this is the model being used on the thing he builds all day.

Miguel Ángel 15h

Astra is too good making @HyperFrames_ videos!
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Shikhar 15h

Astra is so cracked at Blender.

You can literally one-shot game assets with it.

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