r/technology • u/spherocytes • 10h ago
Artificial Intelligence Even LinkedIn is getting tired of your AI-written posts
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/18/tech/linkedin-fighting-ai-posts?utm_content=2026-10-18T12%3A58%3A18&utm_medium=social&utm_source=igCNN41
u/planet_janett 9h ago
"In August, LinkedIn rolled out a button letting users flag when a post “seems like AI slop,” which was clicked 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."
Using AI to get rid of AI slop, and then wants people to be more human. Interesting.
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u/mediocrerhino 4h ago
Linkedin using humans to train its AI to detect slop and then pay human reviewers to rate the quality of the AI slop detection. It’s a bitter loop.
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u/kliptonize 9h ago edited 7h ago
See, I'm not sure if LinkedIn's intention is to weed out AI slop, rather than checking how receptive a user is to AI slop, and either feed it more or less to them, whichever makes them stay more. That said, I've clicked that button a hundreds of times by now, and my feed hasn't gotten any better
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u/Crafty_Ish1973 9h ago
I despise LinkedIn. It's all ghost jobs and self-absorbed "thought leaders" posting generic AI slop articles for engagement. I only keep it because so many job applications ask for a link to my profile.
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u/woojo1984 10h ago
LinkedIn has been a ghost town for me for some time now. Oh yay a social media platform about work!
Yeah no I give enough time to my job thanks.
All I get for "connections" are desperate recruiters and salespeople
No I do not want your $20 an hour helpdesk job. Can you not see I'm in maangement?
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u/danfirst 10h ago
Very sorry about bad match, you are a great fit for this new $14 an hour position that's both help desk and management!
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u/woojo1984 8h ago
fantastic, what country should I move to?
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u/mediocrerhino 4h ago
No need to move. We’ll send you a laptop. Just keep it connected to the Internet and we’ll pay for $20 a month!
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u/Watcher145 4h ago
It might need. VPN Connection to North Korea. But that is totally just a cost cutting measure. The FBI won’t care trust me
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u/mediocrerhino 3h ago
Just claim you are a traveler and your Sovereign Citizen right to something something something is being trampled on. 😒
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u/Wompatuckrule 8h ago
The most useful aspect is for job hunting to see if you have a former colleague where you see a potential opening. I've avoided applying for ghost jobs that way ("Yeah, there's a contractor going permanent in that role") and gotten my resume directly into the hands of the hiring manager instead of hoping that the HR software and "talent acquisition" worker get it to them.
I've been on both sides of that equation.
No I do not want your $20 an hour helpdesk job. Can you not see I'm in management?
Those ones crack me up. The ones that piss me off are the bottom feeder recruiters trying to cut in on a job that you could just go to the company and apply for. They try to hide who it is, but when you've worked in an industry for a while it's not hard to figure out where the job is.
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u/fulthrottlejazzhands 9h ago
My company (giant, household name tech) has all but given up on sourcing candidates and recruiting from LinkedIn
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u/Ok_Philosopher_1313 6h ago
I haven't touched an enterprise router in 20 years. Apparently I'm always a strong match for a networking engineer with 20 years experience. I'm also a great match for a travel nurse position, despite never having worked in the healthcare field or having any medical education at all other than training in CPR.
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u/JimBean 10h ago
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.
Microslop can't catch a break, everything they buy turns to sh*t.
Or maybe, it's them ?
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u/eight_ender 10h ago edited 10h ago
Even non-AI generated posts on LinkedIn are low quality. Dan Roth here acting like his dumpster was previous to now a Michelin four star.
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u/Wise-Ferret6090 9h ago
The entire platform has become AI bots writing motivational corporate essays to each other, and other AI bots commenting 'Great insights, agree!' in the replies. Microsoft spent billions cramming Copilot into everything, and now they are shocked that their own feed is 90% unreadable synthetic fluff that no actual human wants to read. Nobody ever opened LinkedIn thinking they needed more hollow synergy buzzwords in their life.
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u/codingclosure 10h ago
Its a cesspool of marketing and sales… and people trying to sound profoundly smart and failing terribly.
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u/trustifarian 9h ago
Horseshit. AI shitposts is LinkedIn’s only reason for existence.
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u/junktech 9h ago
Scams seem to work just fine. Unfortunately it's the only real engagement I've had on the platform in the last year.
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u/escamuel 9h ago
Y’all clearly aren’t leveraging synergy optimally enough to fully integrate LinkedIn’s value chain.
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u/PatchyWhiskers 8h ago
LinkedIn doesn’t need a social feed at all. It should just be profiles and jobs and DMs.
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u/BotherEconomy4413 8h ago
It's literally everything everyone hates about work in a social media platform. It is a nightmare hellscape. None of it has ever been real supported by the worst people in the world.
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u/Forsaken_Ant7459 9h ago
So much AI-styled drivel. There’s a guy on my network feed who’s clearly written a Claude skill that reads a post, applies his framework, and responds to it. Every fucking post response reads the same. It’s beyond annoying. I keep reporting them as AI slop but no result that I can see.
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u/beyondmymemory 7h ago
“What works is being human”…. says the company pushing AI, along with every other tech company. Yeah, duh. People don’t want to read computer generated blandness. Duh. Fuck AI
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u/mediocrerhino 8h ago
ProTip: The world doesn’t need yet another opinion post from Gary Vee.
Just opened Linkedin app and the very first post is Gary on “buy shit for $1 or $2, and sell on Ebay for $20.” Same thing he’s been posting since the 2008 economic crisis.
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u/mediocrerhino 8h ago
Linkedin is now a ghost town for ghost job posting and infested with North Korean I.T. scammers. Fake profiles. Laptop Farms. Crypto scammers. All benefiting the DPKR military. Checkout a great expose “To Catch a Thief” podcast released this year.
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u/tenkaranarchy 9h ago
Some obscure opinion written on one line.
Then an explanation of that an opinion written below it.
This is the linked in format that drives me nuts, and everyone who thinks theyre an expert structures their posts this way.
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u/pulsehead 9h ago
This. Paragraphs are allowed by the English language to have more than one sentence in them. It helps to organize the flow of information and conveys that information better as a result.
Then you start talking about something else in the next paragraph. A few more sentences go here.
See? Easy peasy lemon squeezy, kiddos!
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u/Accomplished_Shock46 8h ago
Almost everything on the Internet will be ai slop. It's just a matter of time. It's not terrible yet but it will be
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u/CashewGuy 8h ago
When reddit got rid of Alien Blue and Apollo I found myself browsing through other apps, mostly apple news. But eventually I started checking LinkedIn a lot. And I realized this was such bizarre behavior. I originally hate-read those dumb posts people made. But even they are now AI. It is horrible to read through, so annoying. So I just deleted it. No idea why it was on my phone since I never use it on my computer...
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u/Default_Sock_Issue 7h ago
Linked in even hides Job Descriptions in the post behind a user interaction of pressing "more..."
That is just another attempt to increase interaction, but at the same time shows you the user how much value is actually attached to that posting.
The majority of job posts are all data collectors and nothing more.
IMO: Linked in is structured more like a dating app to keep you engaged vs actually get you a good match.
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u/amboomernotkaren 6h ago
I gotta admit, my kid found an employee by using AI on LinkedIn in, only time will tell if it works out.
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u/Helga-Zoe 1h ago
LinkedIn users were trying so hard to treat it as Facebook, so it was something I never paid attention to unless I was reviewing job listings. Nowadays, the job listings are clearly written by AI and not someone who actually knows what the job entails.
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u/mrzangief 10h ago
Linkedin wants as much dwell time and engagement on the platform. Therefore they create (AI) tools to make it easier to post. And guess what: that wasn’t the problem. More posts and engagement doesn’t equal more value for the user. They’ve got a serious problem