LinkedIn's 'AI slop' button has been clicked over a million times

LinkedIn's Chief Product Officer, Hari Srinivasan, revealed on Thursday that more than a million users have clicked the platform's "Seems like AI slop" button since it launched on July 30th. The feature lets anyone flag a post they suspect was generated by AI, and the scale of adoption suggests the problem it targets is widespread.

The button sits in the three-dot menu attached to every post, offering a quick way to report content without leaving the feed. LinkedIn paired the launch with upgraded classifiers designed to automatically detect AI-written posts, rather than relying solely on user reports.

The company is also rolling out a new warning label. When enough members flag a post, its author will now see a notice reading "Some members told us this post seems like AI." At the same time, LinkedIn quietly retired its "enhance your post" tool, which had used AI to polish user-written drafts before publishing.

The stakes for getting flagged are real. Posts that LinkedIn's systems classify as AI slop are now seeing roughly 40% fewer views than similar content did just a few weeks earlier, a sharp penalty that effectively throttles reach for suspected AI content.

A platform-wide slop problem

The crackdown follows LinkedIn's earlier move this year against AI-generated comments produced "with little or no human involvement," suggesting a broader pattern of automated content creeping into the platform's professional feed.

Independent detection tool Pangram adds weight to that concern: it found that 41 percent of LinkedIn's longform posts were flagged as fully AI-generated. That figure, while from a third-party detector rather than LinkedIn itself, points to a scale of synthetic content far larger than the platform has previously acknowledged.

Together, the numbers frame a platform caught between promoting AI tools for writing help and policing the flood of low-effort content those same tools enable. The removal of the "enhance your post" feature, alongside the new detection and labeling systems, indicates LinkedIn is now leaning toward suppression over assistance when it comes to AI-authored text in its feed.