LinkedIn just added a button that lets you flag a post as “Seems like AI slop” when it reads like a machine wrote it. If your feed has felt clogged with generic, robotic posts lately, this is the platform finally handing you a way to push back.
The Gist
- LinkedIn added a “Seems like AI slop” button you can tap on any post.
- Flagging a post hides it from your feed and quietly signals LinkedIn that it felt fake.
- LinkedIn is also dropping its own AI post-writing tool in favor of a lighter proofreader.
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ChatGPTMeet the “Seems like AI slop” button
You have probably scrolled past them: posts that sound confident, tidy, and completely hollow, like they were typed by a machine trying to sound human. That style now has a name on LinkedIn, and a button to match.
LinkedIn added an option called “Seems like AI slop” that sits inside the menu on every post. “AI slop” is the nickname people use for low-effort, machine-written content that fills a feed without saying much.
You reach it through the three-dot menu in the top-right corner of a post. It is the same place you would go to hide or report something, except now there is a choice aimed squarely at content that feels written by a bot.
How the button actually works
Tapping the button does two things at once. First, the flagged post disappears from your feed, so you stop seeing that specific piece.
Second, your tap becomes a quiet signal. LinkedIn collects these reports to train the systems that decide what shows up in your recommendations, so the more people flag a certain style, the less of it the feed pushes forward.
There is a nudge aimed at the posters too. LinkedIn will start privately telling people in their own dashboard when their posts are coming across as inauthentic, without shaming them in public. The message lands where only they can see it. That mirrors the same instinct behind spotting shaky machine output, the kind of habit we walk through in how to catch the made-up facts ChatGPT sometimes produces.
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What “AI slop” really means
The word “slop” sounds harsh, but it points at something specific. It describes text that an AI churned out with no real thought behind it, then got posted as if a person had carefully written it.
This matters on LinkedIn more than most places because the platform runs on professional trust. When feeds fill up with hollow machine-written posts, real advice gets buried, and readers start doubting everything they scroll past. The frustration has been building for a while, as we covered when AI-written posts started flooding LinkedIn and X.
LinkedIn is also cleaning up its own house. The company is pulling its “enhance your post” feature, the one that used AI to rewrite what you typed, and swapping it for a lighter tool that only proofreads your spelling and grammar without changing your voice.
How to spot it in your own feed this week
You do not need any special skill to try this out. Next time you open LinkedIn, slow down on a post that feels oddly smooth, the kind with perfect structure and zero personality.
Ask yourself a simple question: does this sound like a real person talking, or like a template filled in by a machine? If it is the second one, tap the three-dot menu and try the new option for yourself.
The bigger takeaway is that platforms are starting to listen to readers who are tired of AI noise. Your taps now help shape what a feed decides to show, which puts a little more control back in your hands.
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