New Delhi: LinkedIn has introduced a new reporting option that lets users flag posts as “seems like AI slop.” The feature comes amid the surge of low-quality, AI-generated content that has flooded the professional networking platform.
LinkedIn Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan confirmed the development in a post, saying it is a “top priority” at this moment.
“AI slop is a top priority for all of us. We really care about this,” Srinivasan wrote. “People come to LinkedIn to connect with real people and share their real perspectives, ideas and expertise. Here are a few more changes to keep it that way.”
The main feature of the update is a new option in the three-dot menu on posts and comments. Selecting the button hides the post from the user’s feed and feeds the signal into LinkedIn’s systems.
“We are ramping the ability for members to tell us if they believe a post or comment seems like AI slop,” Srinivasan said. “Slop is hard to define and the definition changes; this lets us tune our models and make better feeds.”
Beyond the reporting button, LinkedIn is deploying technical defences on the platform.
“We continue to improve and invest in our automation defenses,” Srinivasan said. “On comments alone, everyday we are now catching hundreds of thousands of automated comment attempts, and have blocked billions of other automation attempts (posting at scale, slop) in the last couple months alone.”
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‘Deserves a raise’
The company is also rolling out “a series of new and improved classifiers that identify if a post is AI-slop or generally low-quality content.” These systems will limit how much such material appears in suggested content and posts from outside a user’s network.
A recent study by AI detection firm Pangram found that roughly 41 per cent of long-form LinkedIn posts were fully AI-generated. Users frequently encounter formulaic “thought leadership” pieces packed with bullet points, emojis, and predictable constructions such as “It’s not X, it’s Y.”
“For anyone who shares content, we will test a way to privately flag, in your analytics dashboard, when members feel your post may have come off as inauthentic or heavy use of AI,” Srinivasan said.
LinkedIn is also adjusting its own AI tools. The platform is removing the “enhance with AI” or “rewrite with AI” option that previously appeared when users drafted posts. It will be replaced with a more limited proofreading feature that corrects errors without substantially rewriting the text or altering the user’s voice.
The company is testing private notifications in users’ analytics dashboards when others flag their content as feeling inauthentic or heavily AI-generated.
The response to the feature has been mixed across platforms.
“People are constantly correctly and incorrectly accusing others of using AI on LinkedIn based on random “tells” like words and punctuation. Now LinkedIn has given them another tool to falsely accuse people,” pointed out one of the users in Srinivasan’s comments.
On other platforms, people have come in support of the feature.
“Whatever product manager came up with the “seems like AI slop” button for LinkedIn deserves a raise,” read a post on X.
(Edited by Saptak Datta)