> Ironically LLM accusations are now a sign of the high quality written word.

Citation needed. The LLM accusations come from the specific cadence they use. You can remove all em-dashes from a piece of text and it still becomes clear when something is LLM written.

Can they be prompted to be less obvious? Sure, but hardly anyone does that.

It's more "The Core Insight", "The Key Takeaway", etc. than it is about emdashes.

Incidentally, the only people annoyed about "witch-hunts" tend to be those who are unable to recognise cadence in the written word.

i think another part of the problem is that some people are using AI so much that they are starting to mimic its cadence in their own writing. they may have had a prior coincidental predisposition for writing somewhat similar to AI with worse grammar, and now are inching towards alignment as they either intentionally or accidentally use AI output as a model to improve their writing