Ars has a decently pricey direct subscription, doesn't it? With a lot of tech focused features included. Their strategy is probably the best you could set up in this ecosystem.

If it isn't clear from this policy that Ars is run by the advertisers and not the subscribers, I don't know what would make it clear.

Advertisers only care about eyeballs and really bad press; AI increases the first and rarely causes the second.