Don't change your behaviour because some corporations made questionable decisions.

Your readers won't care about the dashes as long as the texts read like they had human origins and you have something to tell.

I feel you... For 30+ years of my life I prided myself for writing without typos and other mistakes (without autocorrect), using lots of bullet points, dashes, and words such as "delve into" or "underscore".

Now I find myself intentionally adding typos and other msitakes, and using less sophisticated language, just to not be accused of using AI.

Part of it is the guilt-by-association with the other bad writing habits of LLMs, but I think a lot of it is just that LLMs genuinely overuse them, and that homogeneity is grating just like it's grating when you notice a text reuses a particular noticeable word or whatever. As a fellow em-dash user, I have sometimes noticed myself overusing them too, and revised accordingly, starting well before the proliferation of this particular cancer.

So I think you can keep using em-dashes without being associated with LLMs as long as you reserve them for particularly effective/tasteful occasions.

Try out semicolons instead; they're never used but fun to play with too!

I agree, parentheses are not only used incorrectly in a lot of online writing, they’re also ugly.

While you're automated out of your dashes people are automated out of their jobs, relax you'll be ok

Cmd + “-“ = –

Cmd + Shift + “-“ = —

Let’s spread the word until everyone fancy uses them, and then those who criticize text for coming from LLMs will be ridiculed by our ridiculous skills.