ChatGPT told me its name was Astra a year ago

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I was asking it about the Microsoft Bing “Sydney” incident prior to asking this question. Coincidence? Or had the name Astra been floating around in the training/instructional ecosystem for a while?

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2026-09-05 10:38 · r/OpenAI
ChatGPT told me its name was Astra a year ago

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