LinkedIn announced in 2026 a new feature letting users flag posts as AI-generated content, part of a broader effort to reduce what the platform calls “AI slop” in its feeds.
The feature appears as a new option in the three-dots menu on posts, labeled “Seems like AI slop.” When a user clicks it, LinkedIn hides the post and displays a message acknowledging the feedback. The company says the reports will help it “tune our models and make better feeds.”
LinkedIn chief product officer Hari Srinivasan announced the changes, stating: “AI slop is a top priority for all of us. We really care about this.” Alongside the reporting button, LinkedIn is deploying new classifiers designed to detect posts that are AI-generated or “generally low-quality content,” with the goal of reducing how often such posts appear in suggested content and content from outside a user’s network.
The platform is also testing a way to signal to users when others find their posts inauthentic or heavily AI-assisted. In a separate change, LinkedIn is removing an AI feature that rewrote and “enhanced” posts, replacing it with a tool that proofreads content without altering the author’s voice, according to Srinivasan.
The moves come amid growing concern about AI-generated content flooding professional networks. AI detector Pangram found that 41 percent of longform LinkedIn posts were flagged as being completely AI-generated, as reported by 404Media.
The new reporting button may give LinkedIn a direct signal from users to supplement its automated detection systems, potentially improving the accuracy of its content classifiers over time.
Source: The Verge