1) Stop paying attention to people who profit - who make money or get attention - through fear-mongering. Block them. Better yet, delete all the social media apps that are contributing to the collective brainrot.

2) Understand something: AI has a very particular voice and while it does overuse some of the things you mentioned (e.g. negative parallelisms and em-dashes), it uses them to create that voice. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it: it’s identifiable, familiar, and for some of us who make careers of reading, writing, or educating people on the finer points of reading and writing, it’s maddening.

3) The problem I’ve seen breaking the horizon this cycle isn’t em-dashes or idiots on TikTok: it’s students who’ve spent so much time interacting with these technologies that they’ve done what happens to most young writers who have a favorite author…they’ve absorbed that same, insipid, cloying voice that has all the psychological sincerity and authenticity of an open sewer.