LinkedIn is introducing a new feature that lets users flag "AI slop."
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Is your LinkedIn feed filthy with AI slop? Have you read enough generic ChatGPT broetry to make you want to log off and open a real book?LinkedIn has a solution. The company is introducing a new feature this week that lets users flag when a post in their feed "seems like AI slop."When you tag a post as sloppy, it will disappear from your feed. LinkedIn will also test a method of privately notifying the poster in their account dashboard that their words "may have come off as inauthentic," according to the company's chief product officer, Hari Srinivasan, who wrote about the feature on Thursday morning.The company doesn't want to be the arbiter of what is good or bad AI content, he said, because "AI and slop are not the same thing.""We want members to get feedback from real humans on what sounds authentic — not just have an AI detector review it and get it wrong," he continued.AI-generated content has run rampant on LinkedIn in recent months. Like its social-network peers TikTok and Instagram, the company is reckoning with a wave of artificially made posts as generative AI tools like Anthropic's Claude, OpenAI's ChatGPT, and ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 make it much easier to spin up content quickly.
