LinkedIn Adds "Seems Like AI Slop" Button on Every Post
Perhaps more so than any other social media platform, LinkedIn has been inundated with lazy AI-generated brainrot content. It has become the AI slop “punching bag,” a repository of painful engagement bait being spewed out by an army of bots who seem at times to mainly be lobbing business platitudes at one another. More than 40 percent of longform posts were flagged as “fully AI-generated,” according to the company.
- ▪Perhaps more so than any other social media platform, LinkedIn has been inundated with lazy AI-generated brainrot content.
- ▪It has become the AI slop “punching bag,” a repository of painful engagement bait being spewed out by an army of bots who seem at times to mainly be lobbing business platitudes at one another.
- ▪More than 40 percent of longform posts were flagged as “fully AI-generated,” according to the company.
6 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 5 hours. Coverage spans 2 points on the political spectrum — 1 lean left, 4 centre.
- ▪ LinkedIn is testing a 'seems like AI slop' reporting tool — Engadget
- ▪ LinkedIn introduces a "seems like AI slop" button to allow users to report posts they think are AI-generated (Joseph Cox/404 Media) — Techmeme
- ▪ LinkedIn actually adds a ‘seems like AI slop’ button — The Verge
- ▪ LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated ‘slop’ — TechCrunch
- ▪ LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button — 404 Media
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Shutterstock / Futurism Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Email address Sign Up Thank you! Perhaps more so than any other social media platform, LinkedIn has been inundated with lazy AI-generated brainrot content. It has become the AI slop “punching bag,” a repository of painful engagement bait being spewed out by an army of bots who seem at times to mainly be lobbing business platitudes at one another. Just last week, Substack CEO Chris Best took aim at the Microsoft-owned career site when he announced the launch of an AI detector feature “because we’re sick of slop and we don’t want Substack to turn into LinkedIn.” According to AI detection company Pangram, a shocking two thirds of LinkedIn posts are showing up as being AI…
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