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LinkedIn announced a "Seems like AI slop" button.
Users can report low-quality AI-written posts.
AI slop posts are ubiquitous on the internet.
As LinkedIn has solidified itself as a corporate influencer site-slash-job-hunting search engine, there's something that irritates users more than the cog-in-the-corporate-machine posters themselves: AI slop.
Someone mentioning that the most important executive-level lessons aren't discovered in a boardroom -- but in some other innocuous and unrelated setting. A callout to today's "fast-paced world." Several short, jab-like sentences. Dramatic line breaks. Wrapping up the post by encouraging the reader to "let that sink in." And honestly? The entire post ends up being a big, fat nothingburger.
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Do you recognize this prose? AI-written text posts are all over the internet, and LinkedIn is a breeding ground for them. An Originality.ai study found that 81% of long-form posts on LinkedIn are likely AI-generated. Users are growing frustrated, and LinkedIn is vowing to do something about it.
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