I think writers here are missing the point. AI is eating your lunch. If you notice in Google search, instead of recommendations one now gets AI generated answers. Instead of directing people to websites and blogs, Google generates its own content. Google went from being a search engine to an AI content engine. This is destroying blogs. I assume it is also destroying Medium in the same way. If Medium is open to Google’s AI, it will just steal content and write its own content based on your work. If Medium is closed to AI stealing its content, it will also be closed to search engines so your work will never be discovered. There is no way Medium can compete with AI for content. The only way for Medium to survive would be to sell its content to one of the AI companies like Google, Microsoft, X, or Meta. At least then when AI steals your writings, the AI company would pay for it.