how important are secondaries

it's barely been two weeks and i'm already sick of them

i feel like i can come up with scenarios/anecdotes and adapt them pretty well to answer "tell me about a time you XYZ" type questions, but some other prompts are just so boring i feel like my essay reads as generic slop. it's just like BUZZWORD BUZZWORD BUZZWORD so how important are they really? none of them are like awful? i want to say? they're just like. fine

also slight tangent but

with the rise of gen ai being used to write literally any and everything, certain writing styles or traits (like using em dashes and stuff) are being flagged as gen ai even when they're not

how worried should i be that i'm gonna get accused of being ai? i think i might just be paranoid because i'm worried a lot of my essays are too generic or buzzwordy

also the writing style for my secondaries is different (read: WORSE and SLOPPY) compared to my primary app so that can't possibly help...

and there's the fact that a lot of schools make you esign a waiver or tick a box or something attesting to the fact that you didn't use ai

if they think you did do they just not offer you an interview? do you get in trouble? do they ask you during the interview if you used ai and lied about it? i think my brain is just tired and turning to mush, it just never ends