by Lloyd Lewis For the past two years, public debate around AI has been trapped in the wrong room. People keep shouting about copyright theft, dataset purity, and whether the model saw their blog post in 2014. This is the comfortable fight, the fight everyone can understand without reshaping a worldview. But copyright is not the crisis. It is a decoy. The deeper threat, the one we’re collectively refusing to look at, is the stealth architecture of behavioural steering now baked into every lay
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I grabbed this screen to prove the point. The billing controls weren’t in the modal. They were hiding beneath it, off-frame, like buttons on a sunken UI layer. Cancellation opens via pop-ups through the payment owners: either Stripe or your X account page at X (formerly Twitter). If your browser blocks pop-ups, nothing tells you. No error. No warning. You just get a dead link and a billing loop that pretends to help you leave it. How to actually cancel SuperGrok 1. Open Manage your Grok subs
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By Lloyd Lewis The Hollow Circuit started as a novel. At least that was the label used when we first decided to publish it. But it was already something larger. A through-line. A structure. A gravitational pull we’d been circling for years without naming it. Everything we make now sits inside that architecture. The fiction. The essays. The photography. The animations. 3D artwork. The glitch zines. The music. The worldbuilding. The alter egos. The offline drops in cities that barely know we’ve
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By Lloyd Lewis for Art of FACELESS Let us stop pretending Substack is a creative revolution. Let us stop stroking the platform like a wounded pet. Let us call it what it is. Substack has become a playground for middle-class hobbyists who treat writing like a scented candle: a relaxing little ritual that requires no consequences, no sacrifice, and certainly no need to pay the rent with the words they produce.
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