The first salvo of the war against AI slop on LinkedIn looks to be going the right way for those of us who can actually use our imaginations, the company has said.
LinkedIn Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan has revealed over a million people have clicked the ‘seems like AI slop’ report option in the two weeks since its launch – and I’ve definitely clicked it a few times.
Srinivasan says that these reports, along with changes to LinkedIn’s detection systems, have cut views of content classified as AI slop by 40% – although sadly my feed is still pretty full of it.
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“Low-quality content” crackdown
In his post, Srinivasan noted the feedback was, “helping us better understand how our community experiences low-quality content” across LinkedIn, suggesting stricter clampdowns to come.
The first stage of this is launching now, so if one of your posts receives enough community feedback (aka is reported as AI slop), you may see a message in your Post Analytics, “to help you understand how your content is being received”.
“We approached this assuming good intent; I know I’m increasingly conscious on how to not sound like AI & the goal is to provide helpful feedback,” Srinivasan says.
“Importantly, no single piece of feedback determines how content is distributed,” he added. “We look at many signals together, and we’ve built safeguards to help prevent individual feedback from being used to unfairly target other members.”
“Despite the progress, we know we have more to do to ensure LinkedIn remains a place where you can find real people & real perspectives… this all remains very top of mind,” Srinivasan concluded, suggesting further actions may come soon.
The company announced it was cracking down on AI slop in early August 2026, when Srinivasan declared it was, “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.”
To report a post, users just need to click on the three dots at the top-right of any LinkedIn post, and among the usual options to save, share or embed, you’ll see a new option – “Seems like AI slop”.
Srinivasan added that Microsoft-owned LinkedIn will, “continue to improve and invest in our automation defences..on comments alone, everyday we are now catching hundreds of thousands of automated comment attempts, and have blocked billions of other automation attempts (posting at scale, slop) in the last couple months alone.”
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