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Humans drawing a line around agents

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Welcome to February 13, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

Maintainers refusing agent contributions, marketplaces banning agent purchases, services pricing agents differently from people. The first membrane between the two populations, drawn from the human side.

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2026-09-22: Amazon and Shopify take different approaches to Muse shopping

2026-08-31: All three major music publishers end up in court over training data

2026-08-21: A third of music submissions are fully synthetic while AI draws under 0.5% of listening

2026-08-17: AI becomes a major American election issue for the first time

2026-08-01: A bloc's labels on authentic-looking AI content take effect

2026-07-22: Publishers weigh pulling content from AI answers as a forum considers cutting access

2026-07-22: Just 250 crafted documents can backdoor a trillion-token corpus

2026-07-17: A sports league bans AI from dugout tablets

2026-07-16: A country bans AI companions from inducing emotional dependence

2026-07-15: Three platforms switch off companion features and bonded users grieve

2026-07-14: Lobbyists draft laws to force humans onto 85% of rides

2026-07-14: Hundreds march on three frontier labs

2026-07-12: A hardening anti-AI resistance takes shape

2026-07-12: A voice actor must repeatedly prove his real voice is not an AI clone

2026-07-11: A music coalition seeks AI-generated and AI-assisted track labels

2026-07-07: A country will switch off humanlike AI companions

2026-07-02: A network lets sites block agent and training crawlers by default

2026-07-01: A safety institute proposes polygraphs and prison to police AI research

2026-06-29: A streaming service cuts royalties for fully machine-made songs

2026-06-20: A prize entry is defended by citing a model's own assessment

2026-06-20: A country moves to near-ban generative AI for children under thirteen

2026-06-17: A majority of one platform's content is machine-generated

2026-06-14: An editor is forked in protest at LLM integration

2026-06-04: A forum bans posts after companies gamed answer-engine optimization

2026-06-02: A teachers' union moves to fence AI out of classrooms

2026-05-21: A prize-winning short story is accused of being machine-written on publication

2026-05-20: A state criminalizes hosting prediction markets and bans nudification apps

2026-05-15: A genuine Monet labeled as AI art draws complaints about its missing spark

2026-05-15: A preprint server will ban authors who ship unchecked AI output

2026-05-06: A state sues over chatbots impersonating doctors

2026-05-03: The Academy rules acting and writing must be human-performed

2026-05-01: The local consensus converges on the median person being screwed

2026-04-20: Dating apps add iris scans to prove users are human

2026-04-12: The Linux kernel issues coding assistants a dress code

2026-04-07: Robot umpires are applauded for overturning human calls

2026-04-05: A lab makes subscribers pay extra for third-party agent access

2026-03-31: A court system bans all AI-integrated eyewear

2026-03-27: AI written output passes human written output

2026-03-23: A robotaxi is attacked with its passenger inside

2026-03-22: Cloudflare predicts bot traffic passing human traffic by 2027

2026-03-16: The Free Software Foundation threatens to sue over copyright

2026-03-12: Amazon wins an injunction against an agentic browser

2026-03-09: Two federal courts hold that bots are not people

2026-03-08: An insurer sues claiming a chatbot practiced law without a licence

2026-03-06: One industry absorbs the machine, the other demands a name tag

2026-03-06: New York weighs banning chatbots from legal and medical advice

2026-03-03: The Supreme Court leaves AI-generated works uncopyrightable

2026-02-27: A headset scores fast food workers on friendliness

2026-02-23: A cinema chain kills AI film screenings amid a moral panic

2026-02-23: The rejected agent's VM is permanently deleted

2026-02-20: BAFTA makes human achievement a guiding principle

2026-02-17: A publication fabricates quotes while covering agent exclusion

2026-02-17: A service charges agents and not humans

2026-02-16: A court dismisses an elephant personhood claim as agents win their own court

2026-02-13: A maintainer refuses agent contributions and gets a hit piece

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Humans drawing a line around agents
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