This is unfortunate. I distinctly remember participating in NaNoWriMo back in middle school. The writing often extended beyond November as it was actually enjoyable. Freeform writing is so much better for learning than the contrived bureaucratic style we're forced into in high school.
because you are overindexing on the act of writing instead of how it feels to read. now whether you should pay the same amount for it or not is a different question.
Are there any good open source alternatives for self hosting this kind of platform?
This makes me very sad.
Embracing AI writing would absolutely be a disruption of the bad kind.
“If you couldn’t be bothered to write it, why should I bother to read it?”
so, how the AI writing will help the authors? Or, did you mean "authorship needs to be disrupted"?