{"slug": "over-1-million-people-have-clicked-linkedin-s-ai-slop-button", "title": "Over 1 Million People Have Clicked LinkedIn's AI Slop Button", "summary": "LinkedIn chief product officer Hari Srinivasan announced that over one million people have clicked the platform's new 'Seems like AI slop' button, which launched after an analysis found 41% of longform posts were fully AI-generated. Srinivasan reported that users now see 40% less AI slop in their feeds, and LinkedIn is adding a message to inform posters when members flag their content as AI-like.", "body_md": "According to a post from chief product officer Hari Srinivasan, \"over a million people\" have clicked on LinkedIn's new \"Seems like AI slop\" button, which launched after one analysis found 41% of the platform's longform posts were fully AI-generated. The Verge reports: In Thursday's post, Srinivasan said that users are overall \"now experiencing 40% less views on what we classify as AI slop from just a few weeks ago.\" LinkedIn is also adding a new message that will tell users who make a post if \"Some members told us this post seems like AI.\" \"We approached this assuming good intent; I know I'm increasingly conscious on how to not sound like AI & the goal is to provide helpful feedback,\" Srinivasan said.[Read more of this story](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/08/21/224221/over-1-million-people-have-clicked-linkedins-ai-slop-button?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed) at Slashdot.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/over-1-million-people-have-clicked-linkedin-s-ai-slop-button", "canonical_source": "https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/08/21/224221/over-1-million-people-have-clicked-linkedins-ai-slop-button?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed", "published_at": "2026-08-22 11:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-22 14:42:43.592283+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["LinkedIn", "Hari Srinivasan", "The Verge", "Slashdot"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/over-1-million-people-have-clicked-linkedin-s-ai-slop-button", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/over-1-million-people-have-clicked-linkedin-s-ai-slop-button.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/over-1-million-people-have-clicked-linkedin-s-ai-slop-button.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/over-1-million-people-have-clicked-linkedin-s-ai-slop-button.jsonld"}}