LinkedIn adds a “seems like AI slop” option to report low-quality posts

In short: LinkedIn is adding a “seems like AI slop” reporting button and changing its built-in AI writing help to focus on proofreading instead.

What happened

LinkedIn says it is seeing more low-quality posts that appear to be written by AI. The company is now adding a new report option that lets users flag a post as “seems like AI slop.”

In a LinkedIn post, Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan said reducing “AI slop” is a top priority. He said LinkedIn blocks “hundreds of thousands” of automated comment attempts every day, plus millions of other automated actions over the past couple of months.

LinkedIn also plans to use new “classifiers” to spot slop and other low-quality posts. A classifier is a sorting tool (like a mail room worker who puts letters into the right bins). User reports will act as a signal to help LinkedIn tune its systems so suggested posts from outside your network show less of this content.

The company is also pulling its own “enhance your post” feature, which used AI to rewrite what you wrote. It will replace it with a proofreading tool that checks your writing without changing your voice. LinkedIn also said it will privately flag in users’ dashboards when others think their posts sound inauthentic due to heavy AI use.

Why it matters

For many people, LinkedIn is where they look for real career advice and real professional opinions. If the feed fills up with generic, copied, or automated posts, it gets harder to trust what you are reading, and harder for human posts to be seen.

Source: TechCrunch AI