Videos of OpenAI's new GPT-6 Astra model designing detailed mechanical parts on command have raced across social media since its 3 September launch, yet engineers testing the tool warn that almost none of those parts are safe to actually manufacture.
The clips are striking. Astra has been filmed building a rotating turbocharger split into working parts, a camera broken into more than a hundred components, and a car model separated into several hundred individually named pieces, all generated from a single prompt. One robotics designer used it to lay out a full competition robot intake in about seven hours. Almost all of these came from independent creators, not from OpenAI's own launch materials.
