LinkedIn adds 'AI slop' report button to clean up its feed
Original: LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated ‘slop’
Why This Matters
Platform-level AI content moderation is becoming a defining trust and retention challenge for social networks.
LinkedIn announced on July 30, 2026, a new 'Seems like AI slop' button allowing users to flag low-quality AI-generated posts. CPO Hari Srinivasan confirmed AI slop is a 'top priority,' citing hundreds of thousands of automated comment attempts blocked daily.
LinkedIn is rolling out a suite of measures to combat AI-generated 'slop' — low-quality, artificially written content — flooding its platform. The flagship feature is a 'Seems like AI slop' button users can click on any post that appears computer-generated. User reports will feed signal back into LinkedIn's AI classifiers, helping the platform better detect and suppress slop in content recommendations.
CPO Hari Srinivasan stated in a LinkedIn post: 'AI slop is a top priority for all of us. People come to LinkedIn to connect with real people and share their real perspectives, ideas, and expertise.' He noted the platform currently blocks 'hundreds of thousands' of automated comment attempts daily, and millions of additional automation attempts over the past few months.
LinkedIn is also introducing new classifiers to reduce slop in suggested content from outside a user's network, and will privately flag users whose posts appear inauthentic due to heavy AI use. The company is simultaneously retiring its 'enhance your post' AI writing feature, replacing it with a proofreading tool that preserves the user's voice.
The move comes amid a broader industry reckoning: Substack partnered with Pangram to label AI content, Pangram raised $9M to tackle AI flooding, and Cloudflare reports bot traffic now exceeds human-generated web requests.