LinkedIn is introducing a “Seems like AI slop” button that lets users flag posts or comments they consider generic, inauthentic or excessively generated by AI. The feedback will help the professional network train its systems to reduce low-quality material in members’ feeds.
The feature is being introduced as LinkedIn faces a growing volume of automated posts and comments. Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan said preserving genuine perspectives and professional expertise had become a priority for the Microsoft-owned platform.
Reports Will Help Train LinkedIn’s Classifiers
Users can access the option through the three-dot menu attached to a post or comment. Selecting it removes the content from that person’s feed and sends a private signal to LinkedIn.
The report does not automatically declare that the content was generated by AI or trigger its removal. LinkedIn plans to combine members’ feedback with new classifiers that evaluate whether suggested posts are low quality, repetitive or likely to be AI slop.
These systems will particularly affect recommendations from accounts outside a user’s existing network. LinkedIn said the reports would help it adjust its models as definitions of poor-quality AI content continue to change.
Post Authors May Receive Private Feedback
LinkedIn is also testing private notices within members’ analytics dashboards when other users believe their posts sound inauthentic or rely too heavily on AI. The notification is intended to help people reconsider how they use writing tools without publicly labelling them or penalising all AI-assisted content.
Srinivasan distinguished between using AI to refine an original idea and publishing fully generated material with little personal input. LinkedIn said it wants feedback from people because automated detection tools can misclassify writing and struggle to measure authenticity.
The company is replacing its “Enhance your post” feature, which could rewrite a member’s text, with a proofreading tool designed to correct errors while preserving the writer’s original voice.
LinkedIn Expands Its Automation Defences
LinkedIn said its existing systems block hundreds of thousands of automated comment attempts each day and have stopped millions of other automation attempts in recent months. It is also expanding profile and company-page verification to give users more information about the accounts behind posts and comments.
The platform will additionally let members block comments from company pages they no longer want to see. These controls accompany LinkedIn’s work on automated detection and recommendation ranking.
A recent estimate from AI detection company Pangram suggested that 41% of longer LinkedIn posts and 30% of shorter posts contained fully AI-generated text. Pangram recently raised $9 million to expand its detection software for text and images.
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