LinkedIn adds a 'seems like AI slop' report button

Open your professional feed on any given morning and you will inevitably stumble into it: an overly polished, completely soulless post breaking down leadership lessons no human ever learned from a routine coffee run.

Now, the platform is finally letting people call it what it is.

LinkedIn announced a dedicated report button that allows users to flag posts that “Seems like AI slop.” In a public post, chief product officer Hari Srinivasan made it clear that combating low-quality automated filler has become a top priority for the Microsoft-owned network.

Calling out fake work

The new option lives in the three-dots menu on individual posts. Tapping it immediately hides the offending update from your view and sends a signal back to the platform.

LinkedIn plans to use those signals to train new classifiers designed to spot low-quality synthetic material. The company says it will focus on reducing the amount of AI slop surfaced through suggested content feeds and recommendations outside a user's direct connections.

LinkedIn is also testing a feature that quietly warns creators in their personal dashboard when peers flag their updates as inauthentic or overly reliant on automated writing.

At the same time, the company is walking back some of its own past bets. LinkedIn is officially removing its AI-powered post-enhancement feature, replacing it with a basic proofreading tool that checks spelling and grammar without rewriting the author's distinct voice.

On the infrastructure front, the platform says it is currently blocking hundreds of thousands of automated comment attempts every day, alongside millions of other automated actions blocked over the past two months. It is also rolling out expanded profile and company verification tools, as well as an option to block comments from unwanted corporate pages.

The web is running out of humans

LinkedIn is reacting to a crisis that has already swallowed huge swaths of the platform.

According to findings from AI detection firm Pangram, 41 percent of longform posts on LinkedIn were completely generated by AI. Pangram, which just announced a 9 million dollar funding round this week, also partnered with newsletter platform Substack last week to help readers flag automated articles.

Across the wider internet, the bot problem is reaching a tipping point. Cloudflare recently reported that automated bot traffic on the web has officially overtaken human requests, crossing that threshold much faster than the firm had projected. In March, veteran social site Digg shut down its Reddit competitor entirely after admitting it simply could not withstand the sheer volume of bots hitting its servers.

Why it matters

If you use LinkedIn to publish original analysis or actually build professional connections, this crackdown is long overdue. Over the last year, low-effort accounts churning out daily synthetic essays have effectively drowned out real domain expertise. Giving authentic creators room to breathe is a necessary course correction.

Still, crowd-sourcing slop detection carries real risks. A button that lets users report posts for feeling synthetic will inevitably be weaponized against unconventional writing styles or authors who simply write formally, especially given that algorithmic AI detection remains famously error-prone.

What is most telling, however, is LinkedIn's decision to scrap its own AI post-enhancer. Over the past two years, tech companies rushed to insert generative writing prompts into every text box imaginable. In our view, LinkedIn's retreat back to a simple proofreading tool is an admission that automating personal voice was a fundamental mistake. Removing the temptation to let an algorithm write your thoughts is the smartest move the platform has made all year.