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LinkedIn users can now report suspicious posts directly via the three-dot menu using the “Seems like AI slop” option.
Clicking the new option hides the post in question and displays a message thanking the user for the notice and noting that the report helps improve the feed. The feature was confirmed by LinkedIn’s chief product officer, Hari Srinivasan, in a post on the platform itself. In it, he explained that dealing with AI-generated content is a top priority for the company, since people come to LinkedIn looking for real perspectives and expertise from other users. User reports are meant to feed directly into LinkedIn’s own detection models, since the definition of low-quality AI content keeps changing.
Srinivasan also stressed that using AI while writing is not automatically the same as low-quality content, since many people simply use AI to refine their own thoughts. For such cases, LinkedIn plans to privately notify authors through their post analytics when a text might come across as inauthentic, rather than publicly flagging the post: “AI slop is a top priority for all of us. We really care about this. People come to LinkedIn to connect with real people and share their real perspectives, ideas and expertise. Here are a few more changes to keep it that way.” Srinivasan wrote.
LinkedIn’s AI writing feature replaced with a proofreading tool
Alongside the new reporting feature, LinkedIn removed its previous AI writing feature, “Enhance your post,” which had been available directly in the post editor. It is being replaced by a pure proofreading tool that, according to the company, does not change the original tone of a post. Srinivasan also pointed to stepped-up automated defenses, which LinkedIn says now block several hundred thousand automatically generated comments every day.
The move follows findings from the detection service Pangram, which estimates that more than 40 percent of longer posts and around 30 percent of shorter posts on LinkedIn are likely created with AI assistance. It remains unclear what concrete consequences a report will have for the reach of a post or account; LinkedIn has not yet commented on this in detail.
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