{"id":11283,"date":"2026-08-17T18:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T00:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/attentionmedia.io\/?p=11283"},"modified":"2026-08-17T18:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T00:41:19","slug":"why-linkedin-doesnt-really-care-about-ai-slop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/attentionmedia.io\/?p=11283","title":{"rendered":"Why LinkedIn doesn\u2019t really care about AI slop"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LinkedIn wants you to believe it\u2019s serious about cracking down on AI slop. To prove it, they\u2019ve removed the button for generating AI slop and added one to call it out.<\/p>\n

\u201cAI slop is a top priority for all of us. We really care about this,\u201d CPO Hari Srinivasan wrote<\/a>. \u201cPeople come to LinkedIn to connect with real people and share their real perspectives.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Really? Where?\u00a0<\/p>\n

People come to LinkedIn to connect with people higher up the org chart in the hopes of selling a product and\/or themselves. That\u2019s the business model. Who would go there otherwise?\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a place where everyone pretends it\u2019s not about the money, while knowing that it\u2019s always about the money.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why LinkedIn is a soulless void, where honesty and feeling vanish under the tsunami of regurgitated happy-happy biz speak. How else to explain the fact that no one laughs when someone claims to be \u201ca visionary and a thought-leader\u201d?\u00a0<\/p>\n

AI has spread here faster than Asian Carp on the Mississippi because it excels at happy-happy biz speak. Combine that with a system that values jargon density over logic, and you\u2019ve got LinkedIn\u2019s almost convincing simulacrum of communication.<\/p>\n

Originality or AI. You can\u2019t have them both.<\/h2>\n

A company with the oxymoronic name Originality.AI<\/a> found that \u201c81.2% of 5,000 July posts were Likely AI.\u201d (\u201cLikely\u201d is capitalized in the original. Does that make it more or less likely that it was written by AI?)<\/em> My response is Theodore Sturgeon\u2019s law<\/a>, \u201c90% of everything is crap,\u201d with Harlan Ellison<\/a>\u2018s addendum: \u201cTed Sturgeon is an optimist.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

AI writing is not hard to spot. It\u2019s sometimes clear, always lifeless, and as straight and flat as a Nebraska highway. It doesn\u2019t wander off topic, it offers no unexpected views. It takes you from point A to point A-and-a-half in the most predictable manner possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Also, consider that there are millions of technically readable posts on LinkedIn. That isn\u2019t happening without AI. The fact is, 95% of English speakers can\u2019t write a simple, declarative sentence \u2014 let alone one with a subordinate clause.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To quote John Gruber<\/a>: \u201cClaude, ChatGPT, Grok, et al. are \u2018better writers\u2019 than most humans and produce better prose than the median human. But no [expletive deleted]. Most people are terrible writers.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

(The headline on Gruber\u2019s post is, \u201cAnthropic\u2019s \u2018Watermark\u2019 Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing.\u201d<\/em> Now I love overheated invective, but Claude perverting writing? I wish. That makes it sound interesting.)<\/em><\/p>\n

The easy way to prove that you, not AI, wrote it.\u00a0<\/h2>\n

AI can find patterns in large datasets, but humans can find them without the data. Pareidolia is the human ability to find shapes (usually faces and usually in clouds) in all sorts of things. We impose order where there isn\u2019t any. That\u2019s one of the reasons we\u2019ve flourished in a chaotic world.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The downside to finding patterns where they don\u2019t exist is paranoia and conspiracy theories. The upside is inspiration. The random connection of seemingly unrelated things is the source of genius.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cPeanut butter and <\/em>jelly?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cA musical comedy about Barbie?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe real housewives of Rhode Island?\u201d (Just because it\u2019s genius doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s good.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Nothing says written by a real person like an almost off-topic digression or parenthetical comment. That\u2019s almost all this article is. You may hate it (why are you still reading?), <\/em>but I guarantee at no point did you doubt it was written by a human.<\/p>\n

LinkedIn loves AI slop<\/h2>\n

LinkedIn\u2019s complaints about AI slop are an attempt to imitate authenticity, to show that it vaguely cares about users\u2019 interests. I have no doubt there is some concern that it will drive readers away, but where would they go? For better or worse, no other site fills this niche in the business ecosystem. (I have now met the minimum jargon requirements for a business article.)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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LinkedIn wants you to believe it\u2019s serious about cracking down on AI slop. To prove it, they\u2019ve removed the button for generating AI slop and added one to call it out. \u201cAI slop is a top priority for all of us. We really care about this,\u201d CPO Hari Srinivasan wrote. \u201cPeople come to LinkedIn to … <\/p>\n

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