Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button
LinkedIn actually announced a "Seems like AI slop" button on July 30th, and the company says that a lot of people have already used it. According to a Thursday post from chief product officer Hari Srinivasan, "over a million people" have clicked on the button, which is accessible from the three dots menu on a post. LinkedIn announced the button a few weeks after AI detector Pangram determined that 41 percent of LinkedIn's longform posts were flagged as fully AI generated, whic
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LinkedIn introduced a button that allows users to flag posts as AI-generated content, and over a million people have already used it since its announcement. The platform created this feature after an AI detector found that 41 percent of LinkedIn's longform posts were flagged as fully AI generated. According to the company's chief product officer, users are now experiencing 40 percent fewer views on posts classified as AI slop compared to a few weeks prior, suggesting the feature is helping reduce AI-generated content on the platform. LinkedIn is also adding notifications to inform users when their posts receive multiple reports of seeming like AI.
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