LinkedIn Added a New Way to Report AI Slop

LinkedIn推出新功能，让用户能一键举报“AI垃圾内容”，帮你清理时间线。你刷LinkedIn时，肯定见过那种“千篇一律的B2B销售成功学”帖子吧？没错，这就是AI“灌水”的典型代表。现在LinkedIn让你当“质检员”——看到可疑的AI生成内容，点帖子旁边三个小点，选“看起来像AI垃圾”就行。这招很聪明，因为AI内容很难定义，但用户一看就能识别。LinkedIn还取消了“AI润色”功能，改成了只帮你检查语法错误、不替你重写的版本，同时拦住了数亿次AI自动发帖的尝试。对用户来说，最直接的改变就是时间线可能更干净了。你不需要再忍受那些空洞无物的AI文案，社交平台也能从你的举报中学习，不断优化识别算法。不过也要留意，这可能会误伤那些用心写长文但文风类似AI的真人作者。总的来说，这是平台对抗AI内容泛滥的一次接地气的尝试，也让用户有了更多话语权。

If you’re tired of reading obviously AI-generated LinkedIn posts about the magic of B2B sales, there’s hope: LinkedIn on Thursday released a new tool that allows you to report posts as “Seems like AI slop.” AI slop is the term given to the deluge of posts, images and videos created with generative AI flooding social media like an oil spill. These posts tend to offer little value and clog up feeds. Every social media platform is struggling to hold back the tide of AI slop, and LinkedIn is certainly no exception. A recent report from research firm Pangram found that one in four long-form social media posts was AI-generated. Of those AI posts, nearly two-thirds (62%) appeared on LinkedIn. On X (formerly Twitter), nearly half of all articles contained AI writing. Now, you can report posts you’re suspicious of by tapping the three dots next to a post and selecting “Seems like AI slop.” Screenshot by Katelyn Chedraoui/CNET 404 Media first spotted the feature. Hari Srinivasan, LinkedIn’s chief product officer, shared on Thursday that the company is ramping up efforts to identify AI slop. Allowing people to report posts that seem like AI slop will help LinkedIn get better at spotting the AI-created, low-quality content. “Slop is hard to define and the definition changes; this lets us tune our models and make better feeds,” Srinivasan said. It has also removed the “enhance with AI” option that appears when you are drafting a post, and will be replacing it with an option that proofreads your words without substantially rewriting them with AI. Srinivasan said LinkedIn is flagging “hundreds of thousands of automated comment attempts” and has blocked billions more attempts to use automated postings (usually with the aid of AI) across the platform. Katelyn Chedraoui Reporter 2 Katelyn is a reporter with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video generators. Her work explores how new AI technology is infiltrating our lives, shaping the content we consume on social media and affecting the people behind the screens. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in media and journalism. You can reach her at kchedraoui@cnet.com. See full bio The Latest from Katelyn Banning Open-Source AI Models to Protect Our Cybersecurity May Do the Opposite LinkedIn Added a New Way to Report AI Slop Microsoft Says Workers Are Now Using Copilot AI as Much as Teams and Outlook