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Bryan Cantrill Calls Out LinkedIn Users for AI-Written Posts

In a LinkedIn post republished on his blog, engineer Bryan Cantrill criticizes the growing use of LLMs to write LinkedIn content, arguing the results are stylistically obvious and often poor quality. He points to telltale patterns like excessive emojis, choppy paragraphs, and 'not just...but also' phrasing as giveaways of AI authorship. Cantrill argues LinkedIn's own AI rewrite prompts encourage this behavior, worsening the platform's content quality.

bcantrill.dtrace.org · 2026-09-06

AI writing detectors remain unreliable, forcing newsrooms to manage perception instead

Journalists are altering their own writing habits, such as avoiding em dashes, because those quirks have become associated with AI-generated text, even when the content is entirely human-written. The underlying issue is that no detection tool can reliably distinguish AI from human prose, so publications are left worrying about how their writing looks rather than whether it was actually machine-made.

fastcompany.com · 2026-09-02