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A million people pressed “seems like AI slop” on LinkedIn, and the platform says those posts now get 40 percent fewer views

LinkedIn added a “Seems like AI slop” option to the three-dot menu on every post on 30 July. Chief product officer Hari Srinivasan says more than a million people used it in its first two weeks. He also says the reports, combined with retrained classifiers, have cut views of content LinkedIn classifies as slop by 40 percent in recent weeks. The company has removed its own AI post-enhancement feature and has started notifying authors when other members flag their posts this way. LinkedIn is explicit that this is not a ban on AI-assisted writing: the target is repetitive, generic, low-effort automated posting, not the use of a tool to help you write. The figures come from LinkedIn's own reporting of its own system, and the company has not published how it defines slop or how the classifier decides.

Why it mattersThis is the first large platform to put a number on what happens when you let readers, rather than a detector, decide what counts as machine-made filler. The number matters because AI-text detectors do not work reliably, and everyone building moderation has known that for two years; a million human presses is a training signal no classifier could buy. Notice what LinkedIn did not do. It did not try to identify AI text and delete it. It asked whether a post is worth reading — a question people can answer and software cannot — and then quietly removed its own feature for generating the stuff.

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A million people pressed “seems like AI slop” on LinkedIn, and the platform says those posts now get 40 percent fewer views

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