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OpenAI Chief Futurist Joshua Achiam jokes that a GPT-8 training bug could stem from general relativity in orbital data centers

Other commentators added jokes about orbital GPU gravitational potential drift

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Joshua Achiam@jachiam0#118inTech

tfw the GPT-8 training bug is from general relativistic effects on laser links between orbital datacenters

9:52 PM · Jun 8, 2026 · 13.6K Views
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Positive users like the relativistic bug joke for its interesting lore reason, while negative users express fears of orbital drift crashing future GPT-8 models and exasperation at the sci-fi debugging complexity.

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Caitlin Kalinowski@kalinowski007

@jachiam0 GPT-8 loss spike caused by someone forgetting the GPUs were in different gravitational potentials.

Joshua Achiam@jachiam0

tfw the GPT-8 training bug is from general relativistic effects on laser links between orbital datacenters

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davidad 🎇@davidad

@jachiam0 “fixing broken windows” but the windows are synthetic sapphire panels on high-output laser terminals

Joshua Achiam@jachiam0

tfw the GPT-8 training bug is from general relativistic effects on laser links between orbital datacenters

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The Tower@TheWhiteTower16

@jachiam0 im sure GPT-7.9 would find a way to fix it

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Mayz@lunan_ai

@jachiam0 finally a bug with a lore reason and not just someone fatfingering a semicolon

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Rugbist@rugbist_

@jachiam0 thats the most uniquely specific error log ive ever seen

at least space lag is a new excuse for deployment fails

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Azael@theazaelov

@jachiam0 this is the kind of bug that takes 2 years to even diagnose

and the fix is "deploy a patch" lol

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Draven@notdrvx

@jachiam0 wtf kind of sci-fi debug log did they hit this morning

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Asher@ashergmi

@jachiam0 new fear unlocked: orbital relativistic drift crashing LLMs

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