In an effort to create a better user experience, LinkedIn chief product officer Hari Srinivasan announced in a post on the platform last month that the company would include a new feature: a "seems like AI slop" button. The theory imagines an Internet increasingly filled with bots, posts, fake accounts and automated engagement.
More than 1 million LinkedIn users used the “seems like AI slop” report button within two weeks of launch.
LinkedIn reports a roughly 40% reduction in views for content it classifies as AI slop after the feature’s rollout.
Broader web trends show automated activity is rising: Cloudflare reported bots made 58% of search requests, and Pew found 10% of sampled pages had strong AI authorship indicators.
LinkedIn Users Are Fed Up With Poorly Written AI Content Skip to main content You're viewing the US website. In the first two weeks of the button's launch, more than a million people have used it. AI-detection startup Pangram recently classified more than 40% of LinkedIn's long-form posts as entirely.
The theory imagines an Internet increasingly filled with bots, posts, fake accounts and automated engagement. Srinivasan wrote on LinkedIn last week that within the first two weeks of the button's launch, more than a million people have used it. In other words, machines effectively post, like, comment and boost each other, making most of the content on the Internet.
AI slop refers to poorly generated AI content. As AI agents and bots flood online spaces, the theory has gained traction. AI-written material is also showing up more often across the web.
A few weeks ago, LinkedIn began testing a “seems like AI slop” button to report suspected spam on its social media platform, and it has proved extremely popular. According to LinkedIn’s product manager, Hari Srinivasan , the button has already been used over a million times. As a result, the number of views of content
Since the platform introduced an option for flagging what it deems “low substance, low effort” posts in the app, that type of content has seen 40% fewer overall views.
According to Hari Srinivasan, LinkedIn chief product officer, the ‘Mark as AI spam’ report button has already been used more than a million times in its first weeks. This initiative has reportedly led to a 40% drop in the visibility of content identified as AI slop. LinkedIn is keeping under wraps exactly how reports a
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 […]
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