LinkedIn Finally Admits the Feed Is Full of AI-Generated Crap
Well, would you look at that: LinkedIn, the corporate vanity sewer where every middle manager thinks they’re a thought leader, has finally added a button to report AI-generated “slop.” About bloody time. Apparently even LinkedIn couldn’t ignore the endless flood of polished, soulless, buzzword-infested shit clogging everyone’s feed.
The article says LinkedIn is giving users a way to flag posts that were made with generative AI, which is really just the platform admitting that its carefully cultivated engagement machine has turned into a landfill of synthetic motivational drivel. You know the kind: “I asked ChatGPT what leadership means and here’s what I learned from my barista.” Absolute garbage, now with a report button.
This move is part of a broader attempt to keep AI fakery from completely overrunning the platform. LinkedIn has been stuffing AI into every possible corner like a deranged product manager on a deadline, and now it’s acting shocked that people are using it to mass-produce empty, generic sludge. What a fucking surprise.
The important bit is that users now have at least some way to push back when they see content that feels machine-made, misleading, or just plain useless. Whether LinkedIn actually does anything meaningful with those reports is, of course, another question entirely. Big platforms love adding buttons. Buttons are easy. Cleaning up the mess? That’s hard, and hard things tend to interfere with quarterly bullshit.
So yes, LinkedIn has added a mechanism to report AI-generated slop, which is a bit like handing out mops after you’ve already flooded the building with sewage. Better than nothing, I suppose, but let’s not pretend this is some heroic stand for authenticity. It’s damage control because the feed has become unreadable to anyone with a functioning brain.
I once knew a sysadmin who solved a spam problem by printing every offending message and dropping the stack on the manager’s desk until the bastard couldn’t find his coffee mug. Miraculously, spam became a priority that same afternoon. Funny how people notice shit once it’s physically in the way.
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