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If we're talking about just using em-dashes and ellipses, yeah. But there are tells, like em-dashes or ellipses in... weird spots, where a human would never use them. Anyways, they also use "anyways" after not going on tangents all the time—and they have an unquenchable thirst for ending a passage with a pithy one-liner.
They haven't beaten the Turing test yet.
I very rarely even see em dashes in regular text. I wouldn't know how to type them on neither my PC nor my phone (the latter at least not intuitively) anyway. I always use -, and assumed en and em dashes were only used in books and such, where you also use lots of different fonts, sizes, »« instead of „“/"", etc. If you truly want an artistic pause that is longer than '-'... just use ....
They're trained on scientific writing, and we em dashes all the time in scientific writing.