oh my gosh, @@ I hadn't heard about that. It does seem against the whole idea in general.
So far anyway, from what I've heard the only thing my poetry group uses AI for is to obtain poetry prompts if even that, but not for the actual writing. Then again it's not as big of a thing as NaNoWriMo is I'm sure there are a lot less people involved.
Speaking of my poetry group, our fearless leader just published his first book and did a reading for us on zoom the other night, which was wonderful. He said he's about 90% sure he's going to run the year-long poem a day challenge again in 2025. Yay! Even if he doesn't, I have no plans to end my daily writing habit.
I've made a small group of friends during this challenge and we will continue collaborating on projects regardless.