The feature arrives as AI-generated content continues to spread across social platforms. According to research firm Pangram, one in four long-form social media posts is AI-generated, with LinkedIn accounting for 62% of those posts.
LinkedIn Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan said identifying AI-generated spam remains a priority for the company. "AI slop is a top priority for all of us. We really care about this. People come to LinkedIn to connect with real people and share their real perspectives, ideas, and expertise," Srinivasan said.
He added that user reports will provide additional signals to improve LinkedIn's detection systems. "Slop is hard to define and the definition changes; this lets us tune our models and make better feeds," Srinivasan said.
The reporting option is part of a broader set of changes LinkedIn is making to reduce automated and AI-generated content. The company said it has introduced new classifiers designed to identify AI-generated or other low-quality posts, helping reduce the amount of that content recommended outside a user's network.
LinkedIn also said it is expanding its defenses against automated activity. According to Srinivasan, the platform now blocks "hundreds of thousands" of automated comment attempts each day, while preventing millions of additional automation attempts over the past several months.
The company is also changing its own AI writing tools. LinkedIn said it is removing the "enhance your post" feature, which rewrote users' posts with AI, and replacing it with a proofreading tool that edits grammar and clarity without substantially changing the author's writing style.
Additional updates include expanding profile and page verification tools, introducing private dashboard notifications when users' posts are perceived as overly AI-generated or inauthentic, and giving members the ability to block comments from company pages they no longer want to see.
This analysis is based on reporting from CNET.
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