It's really not hard to tell. It's the "How do you do fellow kids" of AI-isms. The presence of "fair pushback" and a single em dash reads as 99% AI generated as far as I am concerned.

Yes, if you don't want to sound like you're cargo culting AI, you do have to change the way you talk because people aren't going to care otherwise. At the very least just because it's boring. That's always been the nature of slang and lingo.

"not hard to tell"

Or, with all of the AI slop, you think you are detecting all AI. And don't realize the stuff that is AI and not noticed. There is a wide variety of tools now, with different degrees of output quality.

https://ifunny.co/picture/it-s-been-forever-it-s-been-foreve...