Users mash LinkedIn's AI slop button 1M+ times in 3 weeks

More than 1 million LinkedIn users have clicked the newish “Seems like AI slop” button since the social network launched it at the end of July. Hari Srinivasan, LinkedIn’s chief product officer, said that compared to the period before launching the AI slop reporting button, those who copy-paste AI-written posts are seeing around …

[Kurgan]

Well, is there some linkedin content that is not slop?

[IGotOut]

Did I miss that time period?

"to ensure LinkedIn remains a place where you can find real people and real perspectives."

When was that?

I was on it probably about 15 years ago and pretty sure I never saw posts from real people.

Creatures devoid of personality, creativity and originality sure, but no actual real people.

[Skwerlo]

To be fair, Linkedin has never been anything but corporate jargon, sales glop and marketing nonsense which is all indistinguishable from a machine writing garbage.

[T. F. M. Reader]

RLHF?

Humans reading stuff and classifying it into slop/non-slop? Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback? For free? No need to pay a living wage to people in Kenya or Tanzania? Yay!

[PB90210]

CPO... "Pertwee!... What's all this slop?"

"I've got 27 witnesses who will vouch that I was nowhere near wherever it was, wherever it was, when the lead was nicked from the Admiral's roof"

[frankyunderwood123]

echo chamber

LinkedIn has always been an echo chamber.

AI slop probably makes it marginally better.

It never ceases to amaze me how this website got such a foothold that part of job seeking requires you to have a profile on it.

It’s all about the optics.

“wow, look at all that feedback. Look at all the articles linked! Look at that network! This person must be good!”

…or they just spend eighty percent of their time noodling about on social media.