LinkedIn Launched a New Tool to Combat One of Its Most Pervasive Issues. More Than 1 Million People Have Used It in Just 2 Weeks.

Behind the Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Flamin' Hot Slop

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss cool old books, new toys for ICE, and Flamin' Hot Slop.SAM: On the podcast last week, we had what I thought was a pretty nuanced and interesting conversation about the "rare books" discourse (although I'm biased; listen and let me know). I mentioned this in the episode but it all makes me thin…

LinkedIn Launched a New Tool to Combat One of Its Most Pervasive Issues. More Than 1 Million People Have Used It in Just 2 Weeks.

In the two weeks since the platform launched a new feature, more than one million LinkedIn users have used a button to flag AI slop.

From em dashes to AI slop buttons: Why the founders who can’t be mistaken for a machine will win

Last month, LinkedIn added a button that lets users flag posts as “seems like AI slop,” and within weeks, over a million people clicked on it.  The number comes as no surprise to the majority of users navigating these new AI-filled feeds. According to a recent analysis by AI detection tool Pangram, over 40% of long-form posts on LinkedIn have been detected as fully AI generated.  But when something as simple as an em dash – a staple of seasoned …

LinkedIn’s “AI slop” feedback: what it changes (49)

LinkedIn's Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan says more than a million people have used its new “seems like AI slop” feedback option within the first two weeks of rollout. The company framed the control as a way for members to shape what they personally see, not as a punitive reporting channel.LinkedIn also outlined how the signal is interpreted, including safeguards against targeted misuse and a plan to notify creators who receive a high vol…

The slop is coming from inside the house

LinkedIn, in the form of the platform’s chief product officer Hari Srinivasan, is congratulating itself on lowering the volume of AI slop on the social network. According to Srinivasan, the platform has seen “40% less views on what we classify as AI slop from just a few weeks ago.” This follows a new reporting button from LinkedIn that lets users chime in that a post “seems like AI slop.” It is supposed to help LinkedIn “better understand how ou…