LinkedIn's New 'AI Slop' Button Used by 1 Million People

LinkedIn has a new button called "Seems like AI slop," and over a million people have already clicked it. You find it in the three-dot menu on any post. It's a way for users to flag content that feels robotic, generic, or clearly written by an AI with little human thought behind it. The button launched in late July, and the company says it's making a real difference: posts flagged as AI slop are now getting 40% fewer views than before.

Why now? Earlier this summer, a study found that 41% of LinkedIn's long-form posts were fully AI-generated. That's a huge chunk of the content clogging your feed. To fight back, LinkedIn also improved its automatic detection tools and removed a feature that helped users "enhance" their posts with AI. The goal is to reduce the noise and make sure real expertise and experience don't get buried under mass-produced motivational quotes.

Here's the clever part: LinkedIn isn't just silently demoting these posts. If you post something and enough people flag it as AI-like, you'll now get a message saying, "Some members told us this post seems like AI." The company says it's approaching this with "good intent"—meaning they're trying to help people write more authentically, not just punish them. It's a gentle nudge to be more human.

For regular users, this means your LinkedIn feed could soon feel less like a robot echo chamber and more like a place where actual people share actual insights. It won't solve everything—AI content can still slip through—but it's a rare example of a platform using its users' input to improve the experience for everyone.