I could have never imagined that my long love for em dashes would have been my downfall! :)

I think your sentiment is totally understandable. The internet is flooded with AI slop. But not all AI content is automatically slop.

We're moving into a new phase of the Internet were most (all?) content will eventually be touched by AI in some ways. Whether it's Grammarly fixing the grammar, ChatGPT coming up with content corrections, Claude helping with the code, and Copilot writing the integration tests.

And I don't necessarily see a problem with 100% AI content either, when it's actually good. Let's be honest: most people can't even write as eloquently as ChatGPT does! XD I think what I'm NOT ok with is someone pretending they didn't use AI when they did. But as long as the contribution is clearly labelled, I think I'd be ok with that!

The problem is that, like all "witch hunt"-adjacent phenomena, it inevitably gather momentum from haters and so-called "content destroyers". And this, paradoxically, will make creators (like me) less likely to make new original content.