If you’re tired of reading obviously AI-generated LinkedIn posts about B2B sales magic, there’s hope: LinkedIn released a new tool on Thursday that lets you flag posts as “Looks like a piece of AI crap.”
AI slop is the term given to the deluge of posts, images and videos created with generative AI that flood social media like an oil spill. These posts tend to offer little value and clutter feeds. All social media platforms are struggling to curb the AI oil spill, and LinkedIn is certainly no exception.
A recent report from research firm Pangram found that one in four long-form posts on social media were generated by AI. Of these AI posts, nearly two-thirds (62%) appeared on LinkedIn. On X (formerly Twitter), almost half of all posts contained writing about AI.
Now you can report posts that you think are suspicious by tapping the three dots next to a post and selecting “This looks like AI nonsense.”
404 Media first spotted the feature. Hari Srinivasan, chief product officer at LinkedIn, said Thursday that the company is stepping up its efforts to identify flaws in AI. Allowing people to flag posts that appear to be AI errors will help LinkedIn better spot low-quality AI-created content.
“Slope is difficult to define and the definition changes; this allows us to adjust our models and create better foods,” Srinivasan said.
It also removed the “enhance with AI” option that appears when you write an article and will replace it with an option that proofreads your words without substantially rewriting them with AI. Srinivasan said LinkedIn reports “hundreds of thousands of automated comment attempts” and has blocked billions more attempts to use automated posts (usually with the help of AI) on the platform.
Katelyn Chedraoui
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Katelyn is a reporter at CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots and image and video generators. His work explores how new AI technologies are infiltrating our lives, shaping the content we consume on social media, and affecting the people behind the screens. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in media and journalism. You can reach her at kchedraoui@cnet.com. See full bio