LinkedIn reports early impact of its 'AI slop' feature
LinkedIn has shared early data on its efforts to curb AI-generated content, saying that over a million users have clicked its "Seems like AI slop" button since the feature launched on July 30. Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan revealed the figure in a post on Thursday, adding that content the platform classifies as AI slop is now experiencing 40% fewer views compared with just a few weeks ago.
The button, accessible through the three-dot menu on any post, is part of LinkedIn's broader push to reduce low-quality content on its platform. The company introduced the feature after Pangram, an AI detector, found that 41% of LinkedIn's long-form posts were completely generated by artificial intelligence, as reported by NewsBytes. Alongside the button, LinkedIn also launched "new and improved" classifiers designed to detect AI-created posts and removed a feature that would "enhance your post" with AI.
User feedback and new Post Analytics messages
Srinivasan thanked users for their participation, noting that the feedback is "helping us better understand how our community experiences low-quality content." He reminded members that they can send this feedback through the three-dot menu on any post or comment.
As part of the next step, Srinivasan announced that if a post receives enough community feedback, the creator may see a message in their Post Analytics "to help you understand how your content is being received." NewsBytes reported that LinkedIn will alert users who create posts that "Some members told us this post seems like AI." Srinivasan said the company approached the change "assuming good intent," adding, "I know I'm increasingly conscious on how to not sound like AI & the goal is to provide helpful feedback."
He also addressed concerns about the feedback mechanism being misused, saying, "Importantly, no single piece of feedback determines how content is distributed. We look at many signals together, and we've built safeguards to help prevent individual feedback from being used to unfairly target other members."
Clarifying the 40% reduction
Times Now stressed that the 40% reduction in views does not mean the amount of AI-generated content on LinkedIn has fallen. Instead, the statistic indicates that posts classified as AI slop are receiving fewer views due to the new measures. Srinivasan acknowledged variations across networks, saying, "I hesitate to give numbers, as everyone has a different network and feed, but overall members are now experiencing 40% less views on what we classify as AI slop from just a few weeks ago."
Broader crackdown on AI content
LinkedIn's latest actions are part of a crackdown announced in early August 2026, when Srinivasan declared AI slop "a top priority for all of us." The company had also previously announced plans to target comments created at scale with little or no human involvement. In his recent post, Srinivasan said LinkedIn will "continue to improve and invest in our automation defences," adding that on comments alone, the platform is now "catching hundreds of thousands of automated comment attempts" daily and has "blocked billions of other automation attempts (posting at scale, slop) in the last couple months."
Despite the progress, Srinivasan signaled more work ahead, saying, "we know we have more to do to ensure LinkedIn remains a place where you can find real people & real perspectives... this all remains very top of mind." TechRadar noted that, anecdotally, the author's feed still appears "pretty full" of AI slop, suggesting the measures have not yet fully solved the problem for all users.