LinkedIn actually adds a ‘seems like AI slop’ button
The Verge Jay Peters ● Covered by 4 sources
LinkedIn now lets you flag posts as 'seems like AI slop.' Roughly 41% of long LinkedIn posts are reportedly fully AI-generated, so the button has a lot of work to do.
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LinkedIn has finally admitted what everyone scrolling the feed already knew: the platform is drowning in AI-generated filler. The company just rolled out a new reporting option that lets users flag a post with the phrase "Seems like AI slop," tucked into a wider set of changes meant to cut down on the flood of synthetic content clogging people's timelines.
The timing isn't subtle. Pangram, an AI-detection outfit, recently analyzed longform posts on the platform and found that 41 percent were fully AI-generated, according to reporting from 404Media. That's not a fringe problem — that's nearly half of the thoughtful-sounding career wisdom and humblebrag anecdotes in your feed potentially written by a language model with zero actual experience being laid off or promoted.
Hari Srinivasan, LinkedIn's chief product officer, called AI slop a top priority in a post announcing the change, which suggests the company is treating this as a genuine credibility problem rather than a minor annoyance. LinkedIn's entire pitch has always rested on a kind of professional authenticity, real people sharing real career moments. Once a big chunk of that turns out to be generated text optimized for engagement, the whole value proposition gets shakier.
Whether a single flagging button meaningfully changes user behavior is another question entirely. Reporting tools work only if the platform actually acts on the reports at scale, and detecting AI text reliably remains a messy, imperfect science even for companies built specifically to do it. Still, this is LinkedIn publicly acknowledging that its own feed has an AI slop epidemic, and putting a name on the problem is at least a step past pretending it doesn't exist.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
Giving users a button to flag AI slop is a nice gesture, but it's a bit like handing out umbrellas during a flood — LinkedIn's entire growth engine rewards exactly the kind of algorithmically-optimized engagement bait this button is meant to fight. If the company were serious, it would change what its feed ranking rewards, not just add a complaint box next to the like icon.”
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