LinkedIn’s Million-Click Revolt Against AI Slop Signals a Reckoning for Professional Content

LinkedIn’s Million-Click Revolt Against AI Slop Signals a Reckoning for Professional Content

Over one million LinkedIn users have already clicked a button labeled “seems like AI slop.” The feature rolled out in late July. Its rapid adoption tells a story the professional network would rather not broadcast too loudly. The platform many visit for genuine career insights and human connection now swims in generic, machine-written posts that sound polished yet say little. Chief product officer Hari Srinivasan announced the milestone in a pos…

'Cringebot 3000' test on LinkedIn shows the platform is still favoring AI slop

LinkedIn may be full of complaints about AI-generated "thought leadership," but one experiment suggests the platform may still be rewarding exactly that kind of content. A deliberately bad tool called Cringebot 3000 appears to show just how easily synthetic, engagement-driven posts can spread. Here's what to know According to a test highlighted by Business Insider, a journalist used Cringebot 3000 — a generator for over-the-top, cliché-heavy Lin…

LinkedIn Says Users Love Its Anti-AI-Slop Button

The social network says the button has already been used a million times, and it's reduced the visibility of AI slop in users' feeds by 40% on average.

Over 1 Million People Have Clicked LinkedIn's AI Slop Button

According to a post from chief product officer Hari Srinivasan, "over a million people" have clicked on LinkedIn's new "Seems like AI slop" button, which launched after one analysis found 41% of the platform's longform posts were fully AI-generated. The Verge reports: In Thursday's post, Srinivasan...