{"slug": "over-one-million-people-have-clicked-linkedins-ai-slop-button", "title": "Over one million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button", "summary": "LinkedIn's 'Seems like AI slop' button, announced July 30th, has been clicked by over one million users, according to chief product officer Hari Srinivasan. The company reports a 40% reduction in views of AI-classified content and is adding a message to inform users when their posts are flagged as AI-like.", "body_md": "LinkedIn actually announced a “Seems like AI slop” button on July 30th, and the company says that a lot of people have already used it. According to a Thursday post from [chief product officer Hari Srinivasan](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7495960472341409792/), “over a million people” have clicked on the button, which is accessible from the three dots menu on a post.\n\n# Over one million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button\n\nLinkedIn’s new AI slop button is apparently getting a lot of use.\n\nLinkedIn’s new AI slop button is apparently getting a lot of use.\n\nLinkedIn announced the button a few weeks after AI detector Pangram [determined that](https://www.pangram.com/blog/ai-in-your-feed?ref=404media.co) 41 percent of LinkedIn’s longform posts were flagged as fully AI generated, [which 404 Media reported on](https://www.404media.co/linkedin-and-x-are-flooded-with-ai-spam-browsing-data-suggests/). Alongside the AI slop button, LinkedIn introduced “new and improved” classifiers to identify posts as AI and removed a feature that would “enhance your post” with AI.\n\n“AI slop is a top priority for all of us,” Srinivasan said at the time, and it sounds as if the platform’s changes may be making a difference. 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.”\n\nLinkedIn is also adding a new message that will tell users who make a post if “Some members told us this post seems like AI.”\n\n“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.\n\nEarlier this year, LinkedIn also said it would be [cracking down](/tech/931667/linkedin-is-cracking-down-on-spammy-ai-generated-comments) on comments users create at scale “with little or no human involvement.”\n\n**Follow topics and authors** from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/over-one-million-people-have-clicked-linkedins-ai-slop-button", "canonical_source": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/983502/linkedin-ai-slop-button-one-million-people-message", "published_at": "2026-08-21 21:25:50+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-21 21:42:51.728709+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["LinkedIn", "Hari Srinivasan", "Pangram", "404 Media"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/over-one-million-people-have-clicked-linkedins-ai-slop-button", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/over-one-million-people-have-clicked-linkedins-ai-slop-button.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/over-one-million-people-have-clicked-linkedins-ai-slop-button.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/over-one-million-people-have-clicked-linkedins-ai-slop-button.jsonld"}}