I think you're imagining this would be open to random individual bloggers, but that wouldn't solve the quality / clickbait / AI generation problem. Sure, indivi

I think you're imagining this would be open to random individual bloggers, but that wouldn't solve the quality / clickbait / AI generation problem. Sure, individuals could scam, but they could also produce clickbait, low effort crap. The context of this discussion is the high quality, paid, edited writing that is currently behind site-wide subscription paywalls at sites like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Economist, etc. It would be great to lower the barrier to entry for individual writers as far as possible, and maybe even include some sites that are run more like blogging platforms, but there would always have to be content standards and some degree of editorial control for reasons other than avoidance of scams, and with those things in place avoidance of scams is a non-issue because you're dealing with organisations that are trading on reputation. The New York Times isn't going to be defrauding its readers (and neither is Medium if it comes to that).