LinkedIn is introducing a “Seems like AI slop” report button to help curb low-quality, AI-generated posts on the professional network. Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan said the Microsoft-owned platform is pairing user reports with new classifiers and automation defenses that already block hundreds of thousands of automated comment attempts daily and millions of other automation attempts in recent months. LinkedIn will also privately notify users when their posts are perceived as inauthentic due to heavy AI use and is retiring its AI “enhance your post” tool in favor of a proofreading aid to preserve users’ voices. The moves come as publishers and platforms confront a flood of machine-written content: Substack began labeling AI-written posts via a partnership with Pangram, which just raised $9 million, while Digg shuttered a Reddit rival over bot abuse. Cloudflare says bot traffic has now overtaken human traffic on the web, underscoring the scope of the challenge.
Related articles:
— Substack partners with Pangram to label AI-generated posts
— Digg shuts down its Reddit-style forum after bot surge
— Meta’s plans to label AI-generated content across Facebook and Instagram
— Google Search spam policies on automatically generated content
— Cloudflare blog coverage on the rise of bot traffic and mitigation techniques
