If you think that most of the posts you encounter on LinkedIn sound like the same corporate drone-generated slop, it’s because they are actually AI-generated. To combat that, LinkedIn users are getting a dedicated slop button so they can help mop up the mess being spewed across the internet. “We are ramping the ability for members to tell us if they believe a post or comment seems like AI slop,” LinkedIn’s chief product officer Hari Srinivasan said in a post on the platform. “Slop is hard to define and the definition changes; this lets us tune our models and make better feeds.” The new feature will allow users to click the three-dot menu in the upper-right corner of each post to select a button labeled “Seems like AI slop.” If a post is flagged as AI slop, the sharer will also be privately notified in their analytics dashboard.
The new feature comes as slop takes over not just LinkedIn but pretty much the entire social media ecosystem. Srinivasan said that the LinkedIn team has already blocked billions of AI-generated posts and comments in just the last couple of months alone. Substack is also apparently having a big enough problem that CEO Chris Best announced earlier this month that it was integrating AI detection tool Pangram into its platform, in a post that fired open shots at LinkedIn and its subpar reputation.
