Industry Odisha Bureau, August 1: LinkedIn has introduced a new “AI slop” feature that lets users report posts they believe to be generated by AI (Artificial Intelligence). This step comes as the professional networking platform steps up efforts to curb low quality AI content.
“Seems like AI slop” is the name of the new feature. Notably, a Pangram study found that nearly 41% of long-form posts on LinkedIn are AI-generated. This highlights the growing presence of automated content on the platform.
LinkedIn Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan, officially announced the update. He said that tackling AI-generated spam has become a priority. Meanwhile, this will also help LinkedIn improve its own AI systems for identifying such content.
This move makes LinkedIn the latest platform to address the rapid rise of AI generated content online. Earlier, publishing platform Substack introduced an AI detection tool built with Pangram. Similarly, Cloudflare has also reported that automated bot traffic now exceeds human traffic across the internet.
Alongside the new reporting feature, LinkedIn said it is strengthening its moderation systems. The company claims it blocks hundreds of thousands of automated comment attempts every day and has stopped millions of other automation attempts over the past few months.
LinkedIn is also deploying new AI classifiers designed to detect and limit low-quality AI-generated posts before they appear in users’ recommended feeds. The platform hopes these measures will reduce the visibility of span-like content, particularly from accounts outside a user’s network.
