LinkedIn Adds 'AI Slop' Report Button
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- LinkedIn introduced a new in-feed button that lets users flag posts as 'seems like AI slop,' a feature 404 Media confirmed through its own testing of the platform.
- The button arrives in the wake of 404 Media's prior reporting documenting how LinkedIn has been flooded with long, obviously AI-generated posts from executives and other corporate users.
- The flagged posts typically latch onto a news event and spin it into generic 'thought leadership' or other LinkedIn-coded jargon, per 404 Media's characterization.
- Notably, the button uses the colloquial term 'AI slop' rather than a sanitized alternative such as 'It seems this was generated with AI,' a wording choice 404 Media flagged as unusual for a platform of LinkedIn's corporate posture.
Why it matters: LinkedIn is the first major mainstream social network to formally deputize users in policing AI-generated content, and by adopting the blunt 'AI slop' label rather than euphemistic language, the platform is tacitly acknowledging a problem its own feed moderation had failed to curb.
