Instead of discussing whether using metaphors and similes makes a text appear AI generated, I think we need to consider how to use them consciously. How to make them lift our individual human styles.

And maybe SFF writers are ahead of that curve? We already have to think up in-universe expressions like searching for a Kwawanese shuttlecraft in a hangar the size of the aquaforms in the Ruharoan oceans, instead of needles in haystacks.