LinkedIn Now Lets Users Report Suspected “AI Slop”

LinkedIn has quietly introduced a new “Seems like AI Slop” button that lets users report low-effort AI-generated posts… which have been plaguing the professional network for a while now.

The new button was spotted by 404 Media, which previously reported that approximately 41% of long-form posts and 30% of short-form posts on the platform were possibly written with AI. The publication came up with these estimates by using Pangram, a popular AI and plagiarism detection tool.

I’m seeing this new “Seems like AI Slop” button myself when I click the ellipsis on any post in my LinkedIn feed. Clicking on it displays a “Thanks for letting us know. Your feedback helps improve the feed” message.

Besides rolling out this new AI slop reporting button, it looks like LinkedIn has also removed its AI-powered writing tool, which used to appear right in the platform’s Compose box. “LinkedIn’s AI-powered writing tool is not available at this time. We’ll be introducing new tooling to help improve post writing in the near future,” a support page reads.

Two months ago, Laura Lorenzetti, VP and Executive Editor, LinkedIn Global Editorial, detailed the company’s latest efforts to “keep conversations real” on the platform. The exec said that LinkedIn will decrease the reach of content that “appears to be generated by AI and lacks clear perspective.” However, to complement the company’s automated tools for identifying AI slop, LinkedIn users can now report these posts themselves and hopefully see less low-quality content in their feeds.