LinkedIn Says Over a Million People Have Clicked Its 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button

LinkedIn chief product officer Hari Srinivasan said on August 20, 2026 that more than a million people clicked the 'seems like AI slop' feedback option in its first two weeks. Posts with enough feedback will now see a message in Post Analytics.

LinkedIn chief product officer Hari Srinivasan said in a LinkedIn post on August 20, 2026 that over a million people have clicked the “seems like AI slop” feedback option in the two weeks since it launched¹². The button, reachable from the three-dot menu on a post, went live on July 30².

Starting this week, posts that receive enough community feedback will show their author a message in Post Analytics explaining how the content is being received¹. Srinivasan added that no single piece of feedback determines how content is distributed — LinkedIn looks at many signals together and has built safeguards to prevent individual feedback from being used to unfairly target other members¹. He prefaced the numbers by saying he hesitates to give them, since everyone has a different network and feed, then said members are now experiencing 40% fewer views on what the company classifies as AI slop compared with a few weeks ago¹. Both figures are LinkedIn’s own, with no third-party verification. For a measure of how much of the web is machine-written, see Pew Research’s analysis of 490,000 web pages with a detection model.

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One more follow up on AI Slop. - LinkedIn post by Hari Srinivasan, chief product officer at LinkedIn (August 20, 2026)
Over one million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button - The Verge (August 21, 2026)