LinkedIn Gives Users New Button to Report AI-Generated Slop

LinkedIn has rolled out a simple new feature: a button that lets people flag posts they think were written by a computer instead of a real person. It sits quietly in the menu of every post on the platform. The change comes at a time when LinkedIn has earned a reputation as one of the worst places online for fake, robotic-sounding content. For everyday users scrolling through their feed, this could mean seeing less of that content going forward.

To use it, a person opens the three-dot menu on any post and selects the option marked for AI slop. Once clicked, the post vanishes from that user’s feed right away. The person who wrote the post also gets a quiet notice in their account, letting them know their writing may have looked artificial to others. Nothing is deleted or punished outright; it works more like private feedback.

Multiple research groups have looked into just how bad the problem is on LinkedIn, and the numbers are striking. Independent detection tools have found that well over a third of longer posts on the site show clear signs of being machine-written. Some estimates go even higher, suggesting a majority of posts may involve AI in some way. This has made LinkedIn something of a case study in how AI writing tools are reshaping social platforms, often for the worse.

Hari Srinivasan, LinkedIn’s chief product officer, spoke publicly about why the company built this tool. In his own words, he called fixing this issue a top priority and stressed that people come to the platform to hear real perspectives from real professionals, not machine-generated filler. He also noted that slop is a moving target, since what counts as low-quality AI writing keeps changing, so user reports help the company keep adjusting its detection systems over time.

This isn’t LinkedIn’s first attempt at the problem, and it isn’t happening alone in the industry. Earlier this year, the company already began reducing the visibility of posts that looked AI-written, without removing them outright. Other platforms are making similar moves too: Substack recently partnered with an AI-detection company to help readers spot machine-written newsletters, and that detection company just secured fresh funding to expand its work across the wider internet.

Beyond the new reporting button, LinkedIn is changing how it helps users write posts in the first place. The company is retiring its old “Enhance with AI” tool, which used to rewrite entire posts, and replacing it with a lighter tool that only checks grammar and spelling while keeping a person’s original voice. Every report submitted through the new slop button also gets fed back into LinkedIn’s systems, training its detection models to recognize similar content faster in the future.

Taken together, these changes show a company trying to rebuild trust in a feed that many people feel has drifted away from genuine human writing. The new button hands that judgment back to real users instead of relying only on automated detection. Whether it meaningfully reduces the flood of AI content remains to be seen, especially since even humans often struggle to tell AI writing apart from their own. Still, it marks one of the clearest efforts yet by a major platform to let its own users help clean up the mess.