This Is Why LinkedIn Sucks Now
If you're online, you know by now that AI slop isn't limited to visuals-focused social media platforms. Even LinkedIn, an ostensibly career-focused social site, has become absolutely overrun with AI-generated posts, per two separate analyses.
Originality.ai and Pangram, two AI checkers, both say that more than 50% of longer English-language posts on LinkedIn use AI in one way or another, and around 41% of posts longer than 250 words are fully AI‑generated. While the results of Originality.ai's analysis were published in October, they resurfaced after Pangram's went up on Thursday.
LinkedIn's culture helps drive this trend. The platform encourages writing longer posts and rewards those that incorporate both personal stories and business lessons (hence the meme, "What [insert bizarre scenario here] taught me about B2B sales.") The easiest way to create those is with AI, which can easily mimic popular styles, resulting in feeds that are cluttered with posts...
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