LinkedIn Adds a "Seems Like AI Slop" Button as Generated Posts Flood Feeds

LinkedIn users can now flag posts they suspect were entirely machine-written, thanks to a new reporting option tucked into the three-dots menu on every post. Click "seems like AI slop," and the post disappears from your feed while the platform thanks you for the feedback.

The feature arrives as independent detection firm Pangram found that 41 percent of longform LinkedIn posts show signs of being fully AI-generated, a figure that underscores how thoroughly generative writing tools have reshaped the platform's content mix.

Hari Srinivasan, LinkedIn's Chief Product Officer, framed the response as an organizational priority rather than a minor tweak.

"AI slop is a top priority for all of us."

Srinivasan also disclosed that LinkedIn's automated defenses now block hundreds of thousands of bot-driven comment attempts every day, a scale that suggests the spam problem extends well beyond the visible surge in synthetic posts.

Quiet Nudges Instead of Public Shaming

Rather than publicly labeling suspect content, LinkedIn is opting for a subtler approach. Users whose posts are perceived as inauthentic or overly reliant on AI phrasing will see a private notice in their own dashboard, nudging them without exposing them to their network.

That softer touch extends to how LinkedIn is reworking its own AI writing tools. The company is retiring "enhance your post," the feature that rewrote user drafts, in favor of a proofreading tool designed to correct grammar and phrasing while preserving the author's original voice.

On the backend, LinkedIn is rolling out new classifiers trained to detect "AI slop or generally low-quality content." Those signals will be used to suppress such posts in the suggested content feed and in content surfaced from accounts outside a user's existing network, effectively limiting the platform's willingness to actively promote low-effort AI writing to new audiences.

A Market Forming Around the Problem

The timing lines up with fresh capital flowing into AI-detection startups. Pangram, the company behind the 41 percent finding, announced $9 million in new funding aimed at addressing the broader flood of AI-generated content across the internet, not just on LinkedIn.

Together, the moves signal that LinkedIn sees synthetic content as a trust problem rather than a marketing opportunity. A platform built on professional credibility has strong incentive to keep obviously generated posts from dominating feeds, even as it continues to build its own generative features into the writing experience.