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There are people who do not read first or second person narratives because they can’t separate the pronouns from themselves. I suspect these people should also be very cautious about using AI

Coming back to this to wonder if those authors who insist their characters are autonomous/talking to them/whatever are more susceptible too.

I wouldn't say I'm more susceptible. Getting to the point where characters feel real enough to surprise me when I assume their POV, usually follows hours of working out exactly how they became who they are. That's the opposite of a bot extruding dialogue based on averaging out common word choices.

I'm with Racheline: I don't read the reported speech or emails of AI and see consciousness or personhood. I just see crafted dialogue, usually elaborately strung out to cover a void in meaning (if you're saying 'takes one to know one' there, fair enough.

Not saying I have a magic author ability to discern AI writing or any such. Just...I think if you worked in a googly eye factory, you would become relatively immune to the anthropomorphic effect of putting googly eyes on inanimate objects.

(There was some idiot booster in my mentions telling me we can't say 'jumped-up autocorrect' any more, so Autocorrect With Googly Eyes it is.)