LinkedIn Cuts AI Slop Views 40% After 1 Million Reports
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Updated · Engadget · Aug 21
LinkedIn Cuts AI Slop Views 40% After 1 Million Reports
3 articles · Updated · Engadget · Aug 21
Summary
More than 1 million uses of LinkedIn’s “seems like AI slop” button in just a few weeks have coincided with a 40% drop in views of posts the platform classifies as AI slop.
LinkedIn said it uses many signals—not user reports alone—to limit a post’s reach, and added safeguards to prevent coordinated or unfair targeting of members.
A new post-analytics alert will now tell users when their content has been reported as seeming like AI slop, extending the test beyond quiet feed-ranking changes.
The push addresses a broader problem on LinkedIn, where Pangram estimated over 40% of longform posts were likely AI-generated; the company has also removed an AI “enhance” writing feature.