Users mash LinkedIn's AI slop button 1M+ times in 3 weeks

Or: Shock as users of world's largest slop repository report lots of slop

Hari Srinivasan, LinkedIn's chief product officer, said overall users are seeing "40% less views" of content the platform considers AI slop. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images LinkedIn is cracking down on suspected AI slop. Its product exec said over 1 million users have reported possible AI slop, and views on suspected slo

LinkedIn actually announced a "Seems like AI slop" button on July 30th, and the company says that a lot of people have already used it. According to a Thursday post from chief product officer Hari Srinivasan, "over a million people" have clicked on the button, which is accessible from the three dots menu on a post. Li

The platform will now alert users when their posts have been reported using the tool. LinkedIn LinkedIn recently began testing a dedicated reporting tool for AI slop. After only a few weeks, the company says it's already improving the quality of the posts people see in their feeds. The "seems like AI slop" button has b