{"id":745879,"date":"2026-08-22T06:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T06:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/745879\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T06:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T06:16:12","slug":"linkedin-says-its-ai-slop-button-is-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/745879\/","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn Says Its AI Slop Button Is Working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subtitle\">The platform will now alert users when their posts have been reported using the tool.<\/p>\n<p>                                             &#13;<br \/>\n                                                    &#13;<br \/>\n                            &#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"gallery-image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/intro-1787339421.jpg\" data-slide-url=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2241857\/linkedin-says-its-ai-slop-button-is-working\/\" data-post-id=\"2241857\" data-slide-num=\"0\" data-slide-title=\"LinkedIn says its AI slop button is working: \" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" alt=\"A screenshot of LinkedIn's post analytics showing a badge that &quot;some members told us this post seems like AI.&quot;\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    LinkedIn<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">LinkedIn recently began testing a dedicated reporting tool <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2227188\/linkedin-testing-seems-like-ai-slop-reporting-tool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">for AI slop<\/a>. After only a few weeks, the company says it&#8217;s already improving the quality of the posts people see in their feeds.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The &#8220;seems like AI slop&#8221; button has been used more than a million times since its launch, LinkedIn&#8217;s Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan shared in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7495960472341409792\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">an update<\/a>. &#8220;Members are now experiencing 40% less views on what we classify as AI slop from just a few weeks ago,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The company has so far been cagey in sharing exactly how it&#8217;s using user-generated reports to weed out supposed slop. Srinivasan said LinkedIn uses &#8220;many signals&#8221; to determine the reach of a post and that it has &#8220;built safeguards to help prevent individual feedback from being used to unfairly target other members.&#8221; The platform has previously made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2174163\/linkedin-doesnt-want-your-ai-slop-anymore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">algorithm adjustments<\/a> to reduce the reach of posts with common AI phrasing, like &#8220;it not X, it&#8217;s Y.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Still, a 40 percent reduction in views would suggest that the new reporting tool is having some effect. Now, the platform is also introducing a new notification that will alert users when a post they&#8217;ve shared was reported by other users as seeming like AI slop. It will be available in the app&#8217;s &#8220;post analytics&#8221; feature, according to a screenshot shared by Srinivasan.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">While AI slop has plagued just about every social media platform, LinkedIn has become notorious for being particularly filled with AI-generated posts. A study from AI detection company Pangram estimated that more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pangram.com\/blog\/ai-in-your-feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">40 percent<\/a> of longform posts on the professional network were likely the work of AI.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Microsoft-owned platform has also at times explicitly encouraged its users to take advantage of AI writing tools. The company has introduced several LLM\u2013powered features over the years, including a prominent button that allowed people to &#8220;enhance&#8221; posts and messages using AI. LinkedIn removed the feature when it rolled out the AI slop reporting tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The platform will now alert users when their posts have been reported using the tool. &#13; &#13; &#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-745879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}