LinkedIn realizes its users have been bathing in AI slop, offers a shower

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AI-riddled social network adds button to report sloppy posts, ditches AI rewrite tools, and promises more to come

LinkedIn has been drenching its users in AI-powered slop posts, going so far as to encourage writers to trade their own voices for a bot's by hitting the "enhance your post" button when they want to share thoughts.

Enough is enough. On Thursday, the site’s Chief Product Officer has announced several changes designed to rehab the platform’s reputation.

CPO Hari Srinivasan took to the Microsoft-owned social network following reports Thursday that LinkedIn had introduced a button for users to flag posts as AI slop. He confirmed not only that the reports are real, but that LinkedIn had additional plans as well.

The “Seems like AI slop” button is being added to the ellipsis menu on LinkedIn posts now, a spokesperson told us, and will be available on all posts...

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