LinkedIn's AI Slop Button Has Been Clicked Over 1 Million Times — and It's Working
- Over a million LinkedIn users have clicked the 'Seems like AI slop' button, which is found in the three-dot menu on any post.
- The platform reports a 40% reduction in views on content it classifies as AI slop since its recent changes were introduced.
- LinkedIn removed its 'enhance your post' AI feature and introduced upgraded classifiers as part of its broader anti-AI-slop effort.
- AI detector Pangram had previously found that 41% of LinkedIn's longform posts were flagged as fully AI-generated.
- A new author-facing notification will inform users when members have flagged their post as likely AI-generated.
More than a million LinkedIn users have clicked the platform's 'Seems like AI slop' reporting button since its introduction, according to Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan. In a recent post, Srinivasan said users are 'now experiencing 40% less views on what we classify as AI slop from just a few weeks ago,' signalling that a suite of recent changes is producing measurable results. The button, accessible from the three-dot menu on any post, allows members to flag content they suspect was generated entirely by artificial intelligence.
The scale of engagement with the button points to deep user frustration with AI-generated content on professional networks — and a genuine appetite for tools that let people push back against it. For LinkedIn, the practical effect is twofold: it gains a crowdsourced signal to train and refine its detection systems, while simultaneously sending a message to habitual AI-posters that their content carries a social cost. For professionals who rely on the platform for networking, hiring, and thought leadership, a 40% reduction in AI slop views could meaningfully restore the quality of their feeds.
The reporting button arrived in the wake of findings from AI detector Pangram, which determined that 41% of LinkedIn's longform posts had been flagged as fully AI-generated — figures that were widely reported and drew considerable criticism of the platform. Alongside the button, LinkedIn introduced what it described as 'new and improved' classifiers to identify AI-generated posts and removed a feature that had offered to 'enhance your post' with AI. Srinivasan had described the issue bluntly: 'AI slop is a top priority for all of us.' Earlier in the year, the company also announced it would crack down on comments created at scale 'with little or no human involvement.'
LinkedIn is now adding another layer to its response: a direct notification to post authors informing them that 'Some members told us this post seems like AI.' Srinivasan framed the message as constructive rather than punitive. 'We approached this assuming good intent; I know I'm increasingly conscious on how to not sound like AI and the goal is to provide helpful feedback,' he said. The move suggests LinkedIn intends the system to function as an educational nudge as much as an enforcement mechanism — though whether authors will act on the feedback remains to be seen.