I'm going to write my response using vernacular English so as to avoid AI claims, so pardon my French.

> We're experiencing broad scale changes in the sentiment of style in written English.

Lol no we're not. The only people who give a fuck about this em dash AI bullshit are losers on Tumblr and commenters on fanfiction sites who are obsessed with the idea that AI is the current Great Evil.

This is the orthographical equivalent of the New York Times running an article that soy-glazed avocado bouillon is the latest trend among Millennials because, like, one of the editors caught their college dropout son eating it one morning at the family table. Son said "duh dad everyone's doing it" to fuck with his dad, and next thing you know, a hundred think pieces on Mexican-Japanese breakfast being trendy.

I've never met an adult in my professional or personal life who actually gives a shit about this. We're talking a fraction of a percent of people who don't want you to use AI, and a fraction of that who waste their life trying to detect it.

Write the way you want. If people can read it, that's all that matters.

Apologies for the French. Blame Canada.

*Edit* Also the em dash is based. Using a double dash should be a prison sentence.