LinkedIn Launches 'Seems like AI Slop' Reporting Button
LinkedIn has added a "Seems like AI slop" button in its feed, allowing users to mark suspected low-quality AI-generated content.
This feature is located in the three-dot menu of posts; when clicked, the post will be hidden and feedback will be acknowledged. The company is also enhancing its classifiers to reduce low-quality AI content in recommendations and has removed the previous "AI-enhanced posts" option.
The event-driven platform's content quality governance is being upgraded, with user feedback used for model tuning, benefiting users seeking authentic content while putting pressure on accounts that rely on AI to generate a large number of posts.
Source: Public Information
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Previously, LinkedIn encouraged AI-assisted writing and launched the "enhanced posts" feature, leading to a significant increase in AI-generated content on the platform. Pangram detection shows that over 40% of long posts are entirely AI-generated.
This shift to user crowdsourced marking alongside automated classifiers aims to protect user engagement and trust by reducing the distribution of low-quality content, motivated by the need to curb the erosion of the core value of the professional social network by "AI slop."
Similar anti-AI low-quality content measures have appeared in other platforms' marking and throttling attempts, with the current professional social network transitioning from encouraging AI assistance to prioritizing quality.
This essentially represents content governance under technological substitution: as the cost of AI generation approaches zero, platforms must use user signals and models to combat the flood of low-quality content, with the mechanism being crowdsourced feedback directly training distribution algorithms to restore authenticity premiums.
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