LinkedIn is rolling out a button that lets users flag posts as "Seems like AI slop," the company announced Wednesday, as part of a broader push to reduce the amount of AI-generated content flooding the professional network.
The new option appears in the three-dots menu on any post. When clicked, LinkedIn hides the post and shows a message thanking the user for their feedback. The feature is live now, and I saw it myself when I opened the app after the announcement.
The move comes as AI-generated content has become a visible problem on LinkedIn. A recent study by AI detection company Pangram, reported by 404Media, found that 41% of longform LinkedIn posts were flagged as completely generated by AI. That finding underscores the scale of the issue the platform is trying to address.
A top priority for LinkedIn
Hari Srinivasan, LinkedIn's Chief Product Officer, announced the new button and related updates in a post on the platform. He made clear that the company sees AI slop as a serious concern.
"AI slop is a top priority for all of us," Srinivasan wrote. He added that LinkedIn "really care[s] about this" and is taking multiple steps to clean up the feed.
The new report button is one part of a larger system. LinkedIn is ramping up new classifiers designed to identify "if a post is AI-slop or generally low-quality content," according to Srinivasan. These classifiers will "reduce the amount of AI slop you might see in suggested content and content from outside your network."
The button itself will also help the company improve its detection. Srinivasan said the feedback will help LinkedIn "tune our models and make better feeds."
Testing inauthenticity warnings
Beyond the report button, LinkedIn is experimenting with a more direct approach to informing users about how their content is perceived. The company is testing a way to show people that other users feel their posts come across as inauthentic or that they include heavy use of AI.
This feature would give users a signal that their writing style or content is being flagged by others, potentially encouraging them to adjust their approach. It is still in testing and not yet widely available.
The company is also removing a feature that used AI to "enhance" a post. That tool, which rewrote or polished user-written content, will be replaced with a new option. Srinivasan described the replacement as a "feature that proofreads your words, but does not change your voice."
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The change reflects a careful balancing act for LinkedIn. The platform wants to offer useful AI tools without encouraging the kind of generic, obviously machine-written posts that many users complain about.
A growing problem on the network
LinkedIn has become a hotspot for AI-generated content in recent years. The platform's emphasis on thought leadership and longform posts has made it a natural target for people using AI tools to produce content quickly. The Pangram study, which found that 41% of longform posts were flagged as entirely AI-generated, suggests that a significant portion of the content users see may not be written by humans.
The problem is not limited to obvious spam. Many posts use AI to generate professional advice, industry analysis, or personal anecdotes, often with a tone that readers describe as hollow or generic. The term "AI slop" has become a common label for this kind of content.
LinkedIn's new classifiers are designed to catch this content before it reaches users. By reducing AI slop in suggested content and content from outside a user's network, the company hopes to make the feed feel more authentic and less cluttered.
The report button gives users a direct way to flag content that the classifiers might miss. Every time someone clicks "Seems like AI slop," LinkedIn gets a data point that can be used to train its models further.
What this means for users
For the average LinkedIn user, the changes should mean fewer AI-generated posts in their feed, especially from people they don't follow. The report button gives them a tool to actively shape the content they see.
For people who use AI to write their posts, the changes are a warning. LinkedIn is signaling that it will reduce the visibility of content that looks machine-generated. The inauthenticity warning test could also make it clear when a user's audience is noticing.
The removal of the AI "enhance" feature and its replacement with a proofreading tool suggests that LinkedIn wants to support users without encouraging them to outsource their writing entirely. The new tool will catch typos and grammar errors but will not rewrite sentences or change the user's voice.
The article was published on Jul 30, 2026, 6:43 PM UTC. Author Jay Peters joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme.