LinkedIn Adds Button to Report "AI Slop" Posts

LinkedIn has added a new reporting option to every post's menu, labeled "Seems like AI slop." It's the first time a major social platform has responded so directly to the wave of low-quality, mass-produced content generated by language models that has been flooding the site's feed for months.

After clicking the button, users see a message reading, "Thanks for letting us know. Your feedback helps us improve your feed." The report doesn't remove the post automatically, it feeds into the system that trains LinkedIn's classifiers, which then reduce the reach of similar content among people outside the author's network.

How the new system works

The mechanism relies on machine learning trained on user reports. The more people flag a given type of post as "AI slop," the better the classifier becomes at recognizing similar patterns, repetitive sentence structures, an artificially enthusiastic tone, or the stock opening phrases typical of text generators.

LinkedIn stresses that the tool doesn't penalize the mere use of AI in writing, only low-quality content that lacks real substance. The company draws a line in its messaging between "AI-assisted editing" and mass-produced content designed purely to farm reach.

Scale of the problem

Data from Pangram, a company that specializes in detecting AI-generated content, shows the scale of the issue: nearly one in two longer LinkedIn posts bears the hallmarks of a language model. For a platform that builds its value on professional, authentic business relationships, that's a problem striking directly at the business model.

AI slop is a top priority for all of us. We really care about this. - Hari Srinivasan, LinkedIn's Chief Product Officer

Additional safeguards

Alongside the reporting button, LinkedIn also rolled out a private notifications panel that alerts post authors when their content starts to look "inauthentic" due to excessive AI use. The goal is to nudge creators to adjust their style before their reach starts to drop.

The platform has also expanded its automated defenses against comment bots, which now block hundreds of thousands of automated activity attempts every day. The writing tool itself has changed too: the "enhance your post" option for generating content from scratch has been replaced with a feature limited strictly to proofreading text that's already been written.

What it means for Polish users

For Polish professionals and businesses using LinkedIn to build a personal brand or win clients, the change means content written entirely by text generators and published without editing may lose reach faster than before. Marketing agencies and communications departments that have rolled out AI en masse for post production in recent quarters will need to review their processes.

It's another sign of a broader trend: social platforms that once eagerly promoted AI content-creation tools are now building defenses against the fallout from their own rollouts. Other services are testing similar measures on a smaller scale, though LinkedIn is the first major player to introduce a dedicated reporting button explicitly labeled "AI slop."