Users mash LinkedIn’s AI slop button 1M+ times in 3 weeks
LinkedIn users have clicked the platform's new "Seems like AI slop" reporting button more than one million times since its launch at the end of July, in what the company frames as evidence of progress in its fight against low-quality, AI-generated content. Chief product officer Hari Srinivasan said posts flagged as slop are now attracting roughly 40% fewer views than before the button's introduction, though he stressed that no single report determines how far a post is distributed, as this depends on a range of signals. The move matters because it reflects growing platform-wide efforts to distinguish authentic use of AI from mass-produced "slop", a term Merriam-Webster named its word of the year for 2025.
Any logged-in user can flag a post via the three-dot menu, and LinkedIn says it will start showing users feedback in their analytics dashboards if viewers perceive their posts as overly AI-generated. Behind the scenes, the platform already catches hundreds of thousands of AI-slop comments daily and says it has intercepted billions of other automation attempts in recent months. LinkedIn also scrapped its "enhance your post" AI writing feature in July, replacing it with a proofreading tool. The article notes a parallel trend in software security, where AI-generated bug reports—once dismissed as low-quality "slop"—are increasingly high-quality, creating a new challenge for maintainers struggling to process the sheer volume.
- LinkedIn's AI slop reporting button used over 1 million times in three weeks
- Flagged posts now get roughly 40% fewer views, LinkedIn says
- Platform also scrapped its "enhance your post" AI writing feature
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LinkedIn is a professional social network where users share posts, articles and career updates. In recent years, the platform has seen a rise in content generated or heavily assisted by artificial intelligence, which many users find formulaic, insincere or low-quality, often nicknamed "AI slop". LinkedIn's chief product officer, Hari Srinivasan, has been leading the company's response to this trend.
At the end of July, LinkedIn introduced a "Seems like AI slop" option that any logged-in user can select from a post's menu to flag content they believe is low-quality and AI-generated. This sits within a wider effort by the platform to manage the growing volume of automated and AI-assisted content appearing in feeds, including spam comments and bulk-generated posts.
The issue matters because it reflects a broader tension across the internet between the growing use of AI tools to create content and the desire of platforms and users to preserve authentic, useful interaction. Merriam-Webster naming "slop" its word of the year for 2025 underlines how widely this concern is now being discussed, not just on LinkedIn but across the technology industry more generally.