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Microsoft Word does this too. I've recently started manually uncorrecting these corrections in my writing because of this new implication that I used Chat-GPT.

Still less obvious than the emails I see sent out which contain emojis, so maybe I'm overthinking things...

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This is a ridiculous maladaptive behavior. Word has been replacing dashes forever, consequently it has been unintentionally ubiquitous in business writing forever. That this character ever became a heuristic for AI is silly.

I mostly find myself uncorrecting it when I'm trying to document command line flags.

You can edit the list of autocorrect to remove any you don't want (or add new ones).

Also you can ctrl-z immediately after an autocorrect to undo it.

the dashes and the auto capitalization are awful for technical writing. The ctrl-z becomes painful and annoying very quickly. Would that Word supported markdown.

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