{"id":933053,"date":"2026-10-18T22:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T22:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/933053\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T22:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T22:20:13","slug":"even-linkedin-is-getting-tired-of-your-ai-written-posts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/933053\/","title":{"rendered":"Even LinkedIn is getting tired of your AI-written posts"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York\u00a0\u2014\u00a0\n <\/p>\n

\n Bland, AI-generated posts have made LinkedIn the butt of many an internet joke this year. The platform has heard its users\u2019 complaints about lengthy, generic missives never touched by human hands loud and clear.\n <\/p>\n

\n As AI has made it easier than ever to create huge volumes of content cheaply and easily, that \u201cslop\u201d has flooded the internet. YouTube<\/a>, Pinterest<\/a>, Spotify<\/a> and other platforms have all sought to limit the amount of spammy, AI-generated content their users see.\n <\/p>\n

\n But LinkedIn has been hit especially hard. Scrolling through the professional networking site earlier this year could mean being bombarded by bullet-pointed lists accented by emojis, references to \u201cB2B sales,\u201d and asks for a follow or comment for more.\n <\/p>\n

\n A report published in July<\/a> by Pangram, a research firm that tracks AI content online, found that more than 40% of long-form posts on the platform were AI-generated, compared to around 30% on X and Medium and a smaller percentage on Reddit and Substack.\n <\/p>\n

\n So now, LinkedIn is upping its fight against slop.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI know you think you\u2019re doing the right thing with your perfectly bulleted list and your hook at the top, and you followed all the advice from LinkedIn advisors across the internet,\u201d LinkedIn Editor-in-Chief Dan Roth, who leads the platform\u2019s content strategy, told CNN in an interview. \u201cBut what works is being human.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n There is some irony in this, given that LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft. The tech giant has pushed for people to adopt its AI tools for everything from writing to coding, and it is up against steep competition from the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic. LinkedIn previously offered AI tools to edit or rewrite posts, although it recently scaled the offerings back.\n <\/p>\n

\n But low-quality AI posts are a business problem for LinkedIn. They all start to sound the same, Roth said.\n <\/p>\n

\n If users see too many generic AI posts, instead of content that really teaches them something or gives them a deeper understanding of a professional connection, LinkedIn risks losing them to other platforms.\n <\/p>\n

\n In August, LinkedIn rolled out a button letting users flag when a post \u201cseems like AI slop,\u201d which was clicked<\/a> more than 1 million times within its first two weeks. Now, the company is trying to use its own AI systems to help weed out AI slop on the platform and to remind LinkedIn users how to post like humans.\n <\/p>\n

\n The company built a team largely made up of former journalists and social media experts who have an eye for recognizing generic, sloppy content. These experts help train LinkedIn\u2019s AI model on what authentic, useful posts look like. If the model flags a post as low-quality, AI-generated content, it\u2019ll be less likely to be distributed beyond that user\u2019s direct connections.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Also key to the strategy is a creator management team that acts as \u201ccontent therapists\u201d for executives, subject matter experts and other LinkedIn users, many of whom have gotten accustomed to the convenience of using AI to write what, on the surface, appear to be polished posts, Roth said.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cA lot of times now today, they\u2019ll run it through Claude or Gemini or wherever, they\u2019ll post it on LinkedIn and it will perform poorly. And then they come to the team and they\u2019re like, \u2018Why did this do badly?\u2019\u201d Roth said. \u201cAnd the best thing you can do is give it back to them and be like, \u2018Did you enjoy reading this? Do you see yourself in this?\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Instead, the team encourages users to embrace imperfection in their posts \u2014 to make videos by leaning a phone up against a coffee mug, rather than shooting in an expensive studio, or to dash off a post to start a conversation, even if it isn\u2019t a complete thought.\n <\/p>\n

\n The efforts are showing early signs of success. Improvements to LinkedIn\u2019s detection systems have resulted in a 40% decline in views of content classified as AI slop, the platform said last month<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

\n That\u2019s not to say LinkedIn is entirely opposed to AI, Roth said, adding that \u201cnot everyone is a born communicator.\u201d But failing to edit or personalize content means it\u2019s less likely to reach a wide audience on the platform.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe just try to push people to be more human,\u201d he said. \u201cThat is what is required to be able to cut through the noise.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York\u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Bland, AI-generated posts have made LinkedIn the butt of many an internet joke this year. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-933053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}