LinkedIn adds a 'Report AI Slop' button as fake-sounding posts take over the feed
Four in ten long LinkedIn posts may already be fully AI-written. Now the platform is letting users flag them and quietly reworking the tools that created the problem in the first place.
Key points
- LinkedIn is adding a button that lets users report any post as "Seems like AI slop," visible in the three-dots menu on posts.
- AI detector Pangram found that 41 percent of long-form LinkedIn posts were flagged as entirely AI-generated in a recent study.
- LinkedIn chief product officer Hari Srinivasan called AI slop "a top priority" in a public post announcing the changes.
- LinkedIn is also removing its AI post-enhancement tool and replacing it with a lighter proofreader that does not rewrite your words.
- New automatic classifiers, software filters that scan posts for signs they were machine-written, will reduce AI-heavy content appearing in suggested feeds.
If your LinkedIn feed has started feeling like a wall of motivational filler written by no one in particular, you are not imagining it. A large share of the platform's longer posts are now entirely written by AI, and LinkedIn is finally doing something about it.
What is the new button actually doing?
The "Seems like AI slop" option sits inside the three-dots menu on any post. Tap it, and LinkedIn hides the post and logs your complaint. According to chief product officer Hari Srinivasan, that feedback will help the company "tune our models and make better feeds."
Behind the scenes, LinkedIn is also deploying new classifiers, automated filters that read posts and score them for signs of heavy AI use or low quality, to cut down how often that kind of content surfaces in your suggested posts and in content from people you do not follow.
Srinivasan also confirmed that LinkedIn is testing a way to show post authors when other users feel their writing comes across as inauthentic.
How bad has the problem actually gotten?
Bad enough that the numbers are hard to ignore. AI detector Pangram, a tool that analyses text for machine-writing patterns, recently flagged 41 percent of long-form LinkedIn posts as completely AI-generated, a figure first reported by 404Media.
That means roughly two in every five longer posts you scroll past may not carry a single word the person who posted it actually typed.
What changes for people who use AI to write their posts?
One specific LinkedIn feature is going away: the option that used AI to "enhance" a post, which could effectively rewrite what you typed in a smoother, more corporate-sounding voice. LinkedIn is replacing it with a proofreader that fixes spelling and grammar but leaves your actual words alone.
The intent, Srinivasan says, is to keep your voice yours. Heavy AI rewrites will now be harder to do directly inside the app, though nothing stops someone from pasting in text written somewhere else.
What does this mean for ordinary LinkedIn users?
Your feed should, over time, show fewer posts that read like they were assembled from a template. The report button also gives you something concrete to do the next time a post makes your eyes glaze over.
If you post on LinkedIn yourself, the message is straightforward: write like a person. The platform is now actively training its systems to spot and downrank content that does not sound like one.
