LinkedIn has a name for the vaguely inspirational, AI-written posts clogging its feed, and now it has a button for them. The professional network has quietly added a “Seems like AI slop” option to its post menu, letting users flag content they think a machine wrote, 404 Media reported.
The button sits under the three-dot menu at the top of any post. Click it, and LinkedIn responds: “Thanks for letting us know. Your feedback helps improve the feed.” It then hides the post. 404 Media said it took about six seconds of scrolling to find a candidate, flagged by the spacing, emoji, bullet-point takeaways and “X is not Y” phrasing.
The wording is what stands out. The button does not say “this looks AI-generated.” It says “slop,” a blunt piece of internet slang for low-effort machine output, now baked into the interface of a Microsoft-owned platform.
Why LinkedIn is doing this
The move follows the platform’s May crackdown on generic AI posts, which suppressed slop from recommendations rather than removing it. The new button turns detection into a crowd-sourced signal. Every flag helps train LinkedIn’s own models to spot the stuff.
