LinkedIn quietly added a “Seems like AI slop” button to post menus. The crowdsourced spam detection reveals a bigger problem for the professional network.
LinkedIn just gave users the exact tool they wanted: a button to call out AI garbage.
You can now tap the three dots on any post and select “Seems like AI slop.” The app immediately hides the post and sends feedback straight to LinkedIn’s feed algorithm.
The update tackles a massive problem. Research firm Pangram found that AI generates over 40% of long-form posts on LinkedIn. In fact, LinkedIn hosts nearly two-thirds of all AI text across social media. Feeds that once featured real career advice are now flooded with fake inspirational stories, repetitive bullet lists, and automated comments.
LinkedIn’s Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan announced this on Thursday. He admitted that static filters struggle to define “slop” because low-quality content constantly changes shape.
By letting real people report unnatural posts, LinkedIn aims to retrain its detection models more quickly. The company also killed its aggressive “enhance with AI” drafting button. Writers now get a simple proofreader that fixes typos without rewriting their personal voice.
Yet, massive irony remains.
LinkedIn still pushes Premium AI writing tools to the exact users creating this fluff. A platform cannot hand everyone a text generator and then act shocked when feeds turn into a ghost town of machine-written posts.
Crowdsourcing content reporting gives annoyed professionals a small win. But user flagging will not cure LinkedIn’s deeper addiction to cheap engagement. Until social networks stop rewarding low-effort posting, users will keep pressing that slop button.
