TL;DRLinkedIn is cracking down on AI-generated “slop” by suppressing generic posts from recommendations rather than removing them. The platform claims 94 per cent detection accuracy in early tests, but has shared no data on false positives.
If your LinkedIn feed has felt like it was written by one person with 10 million accounts, you are not imagining things. The platform has become a petri dish for AI-generated posts that say nothing while sounding vaguely inspirational. Now LinkedIn says it is doing something about it.
The company announced changes that will target what it calls “AI slop,” low-effort, AI-generated content that may sound polished but offers little original thought or expertise. VP of Product Laura Lorenzetti said the platform is building detection systems trained to distinguish between posts that add genuine perspective and posts that feel repetitive, generic, and empty.
In early tests, LinkedIn says its system correctly flagged generic content 94 per cent of the time. Flagged posts will not be removed. Instead, they will be suppressed from recommendations, meaning they will still be visible to a poster’s direct connections but will no longer spread across the wider feed.
