LinkedIn's new 'Seems like AI slop' button lets you report all those cringey posts

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• LinkedIn announced a "Seems like AI slop" button.
• Users can report low-quality AI-written posts.
• AI slop posts are ubiquitous on the internet.

As LinkedIn has solidified itself as a corporate influencer site-slash-job-hunting search engine, there's something that irritates users more than the cog-in-the-corporate-machine posters themselves: AI slop.

Someone mentioning that the most important executive-level lessons aren't discovered in a boardroom -- but in some other innocuous and unrelated setting. A callout to today's "fast-paced world." Several short, jab-like sentences. Dramatic line breaks. Wrapping up the post by encouraging the reader to "let that sink in." And honestly? The entire post ends up being a big, fat nothingburger.

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Do you recognize this prose? AI-written text posts are all over the internet, and LinkedIn is...

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