Overview
- LinkedIn began testing the “Seems like AI slop” option on Thursday, July 30, placing the choice in the three-dot menu so members can flag posts they believe were generated by AI.
- When a user clicks the button the post is hidden from that user and LinkedIn shows a thank-you message while the report supplies signals to the company’s classifiers.
- LinkedIn says the reports will help tune new automated classifiers, and the company has also removed an AI 'enhance your post' rewrite tool in favor of a lighter proofreading feature and expanded verification and comment controls.
- Independent detector Pangram estimated roughly 41% of long-form and 30% of short-form LinkedIn posts are likely AI-generated, and LinkedIn says it already blocks hundreds of thousands of automated comment attempts daily and billions of automation attempts in recent months.
- Experts and users welcome the move to improve feed quality but warn detection is error-prone, that the report button could be abused or used as training data, and LinkedIn has not clarified whether flagged posts will receive human review or when the feature will roll out broadly.