LinkedIn AI Slop Report Button Passes 1 Million Clicks
The button's rapid adoption gives LinkedIn a direct user-feedback signal to train its moderation systems, and the company reports it is already seeing a measurable 40% drop in views of flagged content.
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LinkedIn's 'Seems Like AI Slop' report button has been clicked over 1 million times since launching in July 2026. Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan announced the milestone, noting that views of content classified as AI slop have decreased by 40%. LinkedIn added the button to flag low-quality AI-generated posts after a report found 40.5% of long-form posts were AI-generated.
LinkedIn's 'Seems Like AI Slop' button is getting used. Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan reported that over 1 million people have clicked the report button since it launched two weeks ago, according to his LinkedIn post.
The button arrived July 30, 2026, after a report found 40.5% of long-form posts on the platform were AI-generated. Srinivasan said automated defense systems are already blocking hundreds of thousands of automated comment posts per day, totaling billions over several months in 2026.
The company is building safety measures to prevent the report button from enabling harassment, looking at multiple signals rather than single pieces of feedback. Srinivasan said views of content classified as AI slop have dropped 40% compared to a few weeks ago.
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