LinkedIn's "seems like AI slop" reporting button has been used more than 1 million times since it launched in late July, Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan said.
The company says posts flagged through the button now get 40% fewer views than before. The button sits in the three-dot menu on a post and lets members flag content they believe is AI-generated but low on substance or personal experience. LinkedIn is also rolling out a notification in post analytics that tells a member when their own post has been flagged this way by others, according to The Verge and Engadget.
LinkedIn introduced the tool after AI detection company Pangram found that 41% of the platform's longform posts showed signs of full AI authorship, and around the same time it removed a prominent AI writing-assistance button from the posting flow.
For a network built on real names and professional reputations, more than 1 million reports in a few weeks is a rough proxy for how much users think they're wading through AI-written filler, even if the button also catches posts that are just badly written by humans.