A million people have hit LinkedIn's AI slop button

The gist

• LinkedIn chief product officer Hari Srinivasan said "over a million people" have clicked the "Seems like AI slop" button, which the company launched on July 30th and placed in a post's three dots menu.
• Srinivasan said users are "now experiencing 40% less views on what we classify as AI slop from just a few weeks ago".
• AI detector Pangram found that 41 percent of LinkedIn's longform posts were flagged as fully AI generated, as reported by 404 Media weeks before the button launched.
• Alongside the button, LinkedIn shipped "new and improved" classifiers to identify AI posts and removed its "enhance your post" AI feature.
• LinkedIn is adding a notice telling authors when "Some members told us this post seems like AI", with Srinivasan saying "we approached this assuming good intent".
• Earlier in the year LinkedIn said it would crack down on comments created at scale "with little or no human involvement".

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