LinkedIn recently added a “Seems like AI slop” option to the menu attached to each post. According to the company’s chief product officer, users selected it more than one million times during its first two weeks.
The number represents reports rather than verified AI-generated posts or unique users. Even so, one million clicks is a strong signal. People are finding enough repetitive, low-value content in their feeds that they actively want a way to filter it out.
For most users, this looks like a social media moderation problem. For developers building search engines, RAG applications, research assistants, and autonomous agents, it exposes a deeper failure mode.
The web can contain millions of pages without containing millions of independent facts.
AI-Generated and Low-Quality Are Different Labels
