One report button, used over a million times — that's LinkedIn's first report card on its own "AI slop" problem.
LinkedIn quietly rolled out a reporting tool called "seems like AI slop" a few weeks ago, letting users directly flag posts that look AI-generated. In an update, LinkedIn Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan said the button has already been used over a million times since launch, and that "members are now seeing 40% less content that we've identified as AI slop than they were a few weeks ago."
Srinivasan stopped short of overpromising. He wrote that the platform weighs "multiple signals" when determining a post's reach, and that "we've built in protections so that individual reports can't be used to unfairly target other members" — in other words, a single report won't make a post disappear outright. This is also the most complete public statement to date on how LinkedIn's algorithm works, though details remain relatively sparse. The platform has previously used algorithmic tweaks to suppress reach for posts featuring common AI phrasing patterns like "it's not X, it's Y."
