Or: Shock as users of world's largest slop repository report lots of slop
More than 1 million LinkedIn users have clicked the newish “Seems like AI slop” button since the social network launched it at the end of July.Hari Srinivasan, LinkedIn’s chief product officer, said that compared to the period before launching the AI slop reporting button, those who copy-paste AI-written posts are seeing around 40 percent fewer views.“Despite the progress, we know we have more to do to ensure LinkedIn remains a place where you can find real people and real perspectives... this all remains very top of mind,” he said.
No single piece of feedback is used to adjust how widely a post travels, inside or outside a user’s network, he said, and distribution is determined by a range of signals.
Srinivasan added that users will also start seeing messages in their analytics dashboards to understand how viewers are receiving their posts. If people think there’s too much AI use, the platform will relay that to the user.Any logged-in user can report a post for suspected AI slop using the platform’s three-dot option menu.The CPO made it clear in his initial announcement of the reporting button that there is a difference between AI and “slop.” LinkedIn believes people have a right to continue using AI to, ironically, make themselves sound more authentic.Regardless of what some may think about the button being used to train AI itself - rather than LinkedIn’s users - on how to sound more human, the company also wants the white-collar social media tryhards making these posts to get human feedback instead of an automated AI detector.
