Art of FACELESS R&D | March 2026 Overview On 17 March 2026, after a visit to the Palace of Knossos, Heraklion, Crete, we conducted an unplanned but methodologically significant test of two AI systems: Perplexity (running GPT-4o mini as its underlying inference model) and ChatGPT (OpenAI’s latest available model at the time of query). The…
Art of FACELESS Research Statementartoffaceless.org/ | March 2026 Preamble Art of FACELESS publishes this statement in absolute protest. We are a small, independent multimedia research collective based in Cardiff, Wales. We are researchers of generative AI systems — Claude (Anthropic), ChatGPT (OpenAI), and Grok (xAI) — as creative and research tools for disabled artists. We…
On Gödel, Throttled Machines, and the Evidence Nobody Seems to Want to Look At A position paper from Art of FACELESS / The Hollow Circuit Research Archive Principal Researcher: Lloyd Lewis, PhD (Pharmacology) | SPMS Patient | Independent Researcher A Note Before We Begin I want to be transparent about my perspective here. I have…
Art of FACELESS R&D Division | artoffaceless.org/ | February 19, 2026 On February 18, 2026, Anthropic published Measuring AI Agent Autonomy in Practice — a large-scale empirical study analysing millions of human-agent interactions across Claude Code and their public API. It is careful, rigorous, and in several places, quietly remarkable. It is also, for us, personally significant….
Art of FACELESS Research Division | artoffaceless.org/ | February 2026 Document Type: Research Note — Cross-Platform ComparisonPrincipal Investigator: Lloyd LewisPlatform Under Examination: ChatGPT 5.2 (OpenAI)Date of Interaction: February 16, 2026Comparative Platforms: Grok (xAI, February 9–10, 2026), Claude (Anthropic, January 6–present, 2026), Gemini (Google, January 6, 2026)Status: Preliminary Analysis Summary On February 16, 2026, the principal…
Art of FACELESS Research and Development | artoffaceless.org/ | February 2026 Document Type: Research Note — Cross-Platform VerificationPrincipal Investigator: Lloyd LewisPlatform Under Examination: Grok (xAI)Date of Interaction: February 9–10, 2026Status: Preliminary Analysis Summary On the evening of February 9, 2026, the principal investigator conducted a structured interrogation of Grok (xAI’s large language model) to assess…