LinkedIn has introduced a button allowing users to flag posts they believe were generated by artificial intelligence, with the platform’s chief product officer, Hari Srinivasan, saying on Thursday that tackling so-called AI slop is a “top priority”.
The “Seems like AI slop” option sits in the menu on each post. Flags are private reports to LinkedIn and are not shared publicly.
Srinivasan announced the feature in a post on LinkedIn. “AI slop is a top priority for all of us,” he wrote. “We really care about this. 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 launch follows research published in July by AI detection firm Pangram, which found that more than 40 per cent of LinkedIn posts longer than 250 words were fully AI-generated. Pangram said it analysed around one million posts over two months across LinkedIn, X, Reddit, Substack and Medium, and that LinkedIn was the most AI-saturated of the platforms studied.
Srinivasan said LinkedIn’s automated tools were already catching “hundreds of thousands of automated comments” and “have blocked billions of other automation attempts (posting at scale, slop) in the last couple months alone”.
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