{"id":836535,"date":"2026-07-30T19:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/836535\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T19:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:22:13","slug":"linkedin-introduces-a-seems-like-ai-slop-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/836535\/","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn Introduces a &#8216;Seems Like AI Slop&#8217; Button"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LinkedIn, a social network awash with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/linkedin-and-x-are-flooded-with-ai-spam-browsing-data-suggests\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">long AI-generated posts<\/a> from executives and other corporate workers, has introduced a new button that users can click to flag if a post \u201cseems like AI slop,\u201d according to 404 Media\u2019s own tests.<\/p>\n<p>If you have been anywhere near LinkedIn in the past couple of years, you have undoubtedly seen users posting blatantly AI-generated missives. Often these posts take some sort of news event, and opine on how this relates to thought leadership, or some other LinkedIn brainrot term. It\u2019s also pretty wild the button specifically uses the term \u201cAI slop\u201d and not, say, \u201cIt seems this was generated with AI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    This post is for paid members only<\/p>\n<p>Become a paid member for unlimited ad-free access to articles, bonus podcast content, and more.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"btn btn--brand m-b-lg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/membership\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    Sign up for free access to this post<\/p>\n<p>Free members get access to posts like this one along with an email round-up of our week&#8217;s stories.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"btn btn--brand m-b-lg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/signup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LinkedIn, a social network awash with long AI-generated posts from executives and other corporate workers, has introduced a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-836535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}