I told a student recently that using em-dashes would make her prose more effective. She didn't want to because of this AI paranoia. I love em-dashes and have been using them my entire life, as have many other writers. LLMs train on decades of texts, good and bad. They use patterns that have been working well across the years. LLM detectors make mistakes. And yet we are caught up in this frenzy of fear. Bizarre loop we are caught in.
No one is more annoyed by the AI revolution than people who can actually write a sentence. Basically, having any ability to write now is suspect - you will get accused of being AI at some point. It feels like you are being accused of being a witch, of holding a type of rare magic that only the machines are now allowed to have.