FuriaHubMore than a million LinkedIn members used the “Seems like AI slop” button
Chief product officer Hari Srinivasan said more than a million people had used the control launched on July 30. Posts classified as slop were getting about 40% fewer views than a few weeks earlier.
On August 21 The Verge reported LinkedIn chief product officer Hari Srinivasan saying more than a million members had used the “Seems like AI slop” button. The control launched on July 30 and lives in the three-dot menu.
What we know
- CPO Hari Srinivasan said more than a million people had used “Seems like AI slop,” which launched on July 30.
- Posts classified as slop were getting about 40% fewer views than a few weeks earlier.
- The button sits in the three-dot menu.
- An author notice is coming: “Some members told us this post seems like AI.”
- LinkedIn removed its enhance-your-post AI writing feature when the button launched.
Takeaways
- The slop button passed a million uses in the weeks after the July 30 launch.
- Distribution dropped about 40% for posts the product classified as slop.
- Authors will see a notice, and the enhance-your-post writing tool was removed at launch.
Source: The Verge
