I don't think this is insignificant. IMO it's a trust and culture problem that probably needs to be addressed.

...sorry. It's the new world we live in and you're just going to have to get used to it. People are going to get over it eventually, or not, but "You're absolutely right!" and other tells like em—dashes are going to separate the people who care about the thing vs care about AI doing the thing. If I made you dinner, and you ate it, and found it delicious, but I used a microwave to make it, does it make it any less delicious? Now, if I'm telling you I'm a world renowned chef with Michelin stars and have an anti microwave crusade I'm on, and I'm totally a lying liar, that's one thing. But if I'm just humbly making food for a friend, and the question of microwave or not didn't come up, why does it matter if I used the microwave instead of an oven?

It is AI witch hunt now, it was Photoshop witch hunt before. Nothing new.

I think the real problem is people being sure they can correctly identify AI (while they're actually just guessing wrong). Honestly, I do appreciate the efforts to weed out AI-generated content. Maybe someday we'll come up with more fool-proof detectors.

In the mean time, those weren't meaningful consequences for me. But one of the big newspapers ran an article about college students wrongfully accused of using AI, and then facing academic discipline for cheating.

Like, it takes just a quick look at my post history to disabuse anyone of that notion, but some people are either stupid or trollish.

Me personally, I would like it if AI could give me terse answers that appear as if it were a lazy IT person that was indifferent to everything. Even better if it had a comical sidekick like the two main characters in the IT crowd. Snarky comments on its own comments.