LinkedIn Rolls Out a Report Button for AI Slop to Save Feeds
After spending months encouraging corporate buzzwords and automated posts, LinkedIn is finally giving users a panic button to mute low-effort AI garbage.
LinkedIn added a direct "Seems like AI slop" reporting option to its list of post reactions, letting users flag suspicious content and immediately remove it from their personal feeds.
The platform is also deploying behind-the-scenes classifiers designed to catch cheap machine-generated text and generic spam. To stop the flood at the source, LinkedIn is completely removing its automatic "Improve with AI" post-writing tool, replacing it with a simple spellcheck feature that cleans up typos without altering the user's style, as confirmed by product lead Hari Srinivasan.
Recent data from analytics team Pangram revealed that nearly half of all long-form posts on LinkedIn are currently written by AI, while another 4.3% are human drafts heavily rewritten by algorithms. Even short posts are infected, with roughly 30% of updates between 50 and 250 characters coming straight from synthetic generators, proving that professionals are far more eager to fake deep thoughts on a resume site than on anonymous forums.
Corporate social networking has officially transformed into automated bots generating fake thought leadership for other bots to summarize, while human workers desperately click panic buttons just to spot a genuine sentence.
Source: The Verge
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