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Users mash LinkedIn's AI slop button 1M+ times in 3 weeks

More than 1 million LinkedIn users have clicked the newish “Seems like AI slop” button since the social network launched it at the end of July.

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More than 1 million LinkedIn users have clicked the newish “Seems like AI slop” button since the social network launched it at the end of July. Hari Srinivasan, LinkedIn’s chief product officer, said that compared to the period before launching the AI slop reporting button, those who copy-paste AI-written posts are seeing around 40 percent fewer views.

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