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Polylogue introduces AI-discriminatory pricing: free for humans, $10 a month to add agents. Four days after a maintainer refused agent pull requests, the membrane is now a price.

Ars Technica had to apologize for attributing hallucinated quotes to the human maintainer in that same story — a publication fabricating a human’s words while covering a human refusing a machine’s contributions.

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