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If it works, it’s going to be the best feature introduced by a social network in a long time. Incredible that it comes from LinkedIn.

I wonder if the realised the entire website has become the most unbearable AI slop imaginable and if they don't do anything about it they won't have any real humans reading posts, just agents trying to advertise to each other.

Next up, LinkedIn starts using this feedback to train a classifier. They then announce an officially approved "not slop" classification only for LinkedIn Gold member posts. The classified posts have a wider reach due to everyone filtering out AI slop. Non-members automatically get bucketed in with the slop bc they don't pay to have the verified classifier run on them.

seems like at that point it'd be a bigger benefit for LinkedIn to provide the one and only model trained to subvert the human capability to detect slop using that new negative corpus.

then we're all screwed I guess. lol

Better would have been to offer a button to flag something that does NOT seem like AI slop on LinkedIn.

If there is an action on AI slop on LI, it will end up with almost no posts at all