LinkedIn's AI slop button, which lets users flag AI-generated posts, has been clicked over a million times, contributing to a 40% reduction in views on such content.
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">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 <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7495960472341409792/">chief product officer Hari Srinivasan</a>, "over a million people" have clicked on the button, which is accessible from the three dots menu on a post. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">LinkedIn announced the button a few weeks after AI detector Pangram <a href="https://www.pangram.com/blog/ai-in-your-feed?ref=404media.co">determined that</a> 41 percent of LinkedIn's longform posts were flagged as fully AI generated, <a href="https://www.404media.co/linkedin-and-x-are-flooded-with-ai-spam-browsing-data-suggests/">which <em>404 Media</em> reported on</a>. Alongside the AI slop button, LinkedIn introduced "new and improved" classifiers to identify posts as AI and removed a feature that would "en …</p>
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# Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button
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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](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7495960472341409792/), “over a million people” have clicked on the button, which is accessible from the three dots menu on a post\.
LinkedIn announced the button a few weeks after AI detector Pangram[determined that](https://www.pangram.com/blog/ai-in-your-feed?ref=404media.co)41 percent of LinkedIn’s longform posts were flagged as fully AI generated,[which*404 Media*reported on](https://www.404media.co/linkedin-and-x-are-flooded-with-ai-spam-browsing-data-suggests/)\. Alongside the AI slop button, LinkedIn introduced “new and improved” classifiers to identify posts as AI and removed a feature that would “enhance your post” with AI\.
“AI slop is a top priority for all of us,” Srinivasan said at the time, and it sounds as if the platform’s changes may be making a difference\. In Thursday’s post, Srinivasan said that users are overall “now experiencing 40% less views on what we classify as AI slop from just a few weeks ago\.”
LinkedIn is also adding a new message that will tell users who make a post if “Some members told us this post seems like AI\.”
“We approached this assuming good intent; I know I’m increasingly conscious on how to not sound like AI & the goal is to provide helpful feedback,” Srinivasan said\.
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Earlier this year, LinkedIn also said it would be[cracking down](https://www.theverge.com/tech/931667/linkedin-is-cracking-down-on-spammy-ai-generated-comments)on comments users create at scale “with little or no human involvement\.”
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