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AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn
- josefritzishere 2mo agothe enslopification is pretty obnoxious.
- corgicatcher 2mo ago[dead]
- kappar 2mo agoCan confirm, this pushed me to delete the LinkedIn a few months ago and haven't looked back. It was at one time a professional portfolio, now I consider it a huge red flag if a company even questions why I do not have a LinkedIn. If you want references I will provide them. Social media is not a job requirement for any position I'm interested in.
- barbazoo 2mo ago> and haven't looked back I did the same but I'm aware that LinkedIn is probably how people got in touch with me in the past, eventually leading to a job. So I'm waiting before not having looked back until the next time I need a job :) Regardless, it's not the world I want to live in anymore so you just gotta disconnect.
- mattas 2mo agoIt's like a burgoo [1]. A steaming cauldron of community slop. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgoo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgoo
- noumenon1111 2mo agoHey, at least a bowl of burgoo tastes good, unlike some community slops.
- coldtea 2mo agoOn LinkedIn it's the only place where AI slop will be a huge improvement over the previous content.
- javier123454321 2mo agoThe question is not whether something is AI generated. That's the default state now. Question whether it is human, the economics are exceedingly in the favor of this new normal. https://javiergonzalez.io/blog/the-economics-of-slop/ https://javiergonzalez.io/blog/the-economics-of-slop/
- hasteg 2mo agoSame here, I hate it. Instead of just reading I find myself also dedicating brain power trying to decide if it's worth reading or not based on the first few sentences... if someone can't put in the effort to actually write something themselves I absolutely do not want to put in the effort to read it.
- hasteg 2mo agoLinkedIn is basically unusable at this point. I actually did used to use it a fair amount before but I've since deleted it and just use email notifications to see any notifications from recruiters. What I don't get is how these people don't feel shame in their super obvious blatant use of LLMs for everything, even responding to posts. Maybe it's just me but when I'm attaching things to my name like that, I would absolutely not want everything to be obviously slop shit. Do they think people can't tell or something? I know at least every technical person I know can immediately tell (most of the time) when writing is LLM generated.
- add-sub-mul-div 2mo agoThese are the rubes who buy into the desperate messaging that AI is "inevitable". It doesn't occur to them that their behavior is absurd and empty because they think it's what everyone else is doing too. Why question a decision you see as outside the boundary of your free will?
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- xutopia 2mo agoI'm convinced that the internet is mostly dead at this point. Sites like reddit or this one don't ask people for their identity. Nothing on here could be real and we'd be none the wiser.
- ikesau 2mo agoI'm real xutopia. I'm real.
- luisln 2mo agoI can't tell if your comment is LLM generated or not. What's the point of even reading comments anymore I should just ask claude what it thinks.
- throw_m239339 2mo agoSocial Media, Especially Reddit, is getting worse by the minute, vibe coding spam, AI bots filling subs with AI garbage links & comments, mods calling it quit because of the amount of junk they have to deal with it. IT IS EVERYWHERE... AI music on Spotify, AI pull requests on github, AI videos on youtube,... it's gonna kill the internet...
- dwa3592 2mo ago[dead]
- brendoelfrendo 2mo agoI might be a dog for all you know (though I neither confirm nor deny this), but I assure you I'm real.
- pton_xd 2mo agoProduct and service reviews are completely useless now too, and have been for a while. Restaurant ratings are pure noise, everything is 4 stars and there is absolutely no correlation to the quality of food or service. None of it is real. It's bleak out there, on the internet.
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- nlawalker 2mo agoThe LinkedIn feed was Moltbook before anyone had the idea for Moltbook.
- whalesalad 2mo agoReally no different than the content that is usually on LinkedIn. It's been a worthless dumpster fire for ten years at least.
- Herring 2mo agoOh yeah I can't wait for the next election. Things get so toxic when money/power is involved.
- ikesau 2mo agoBeyond the OP's AI-written or AI assisted distinction, I'm also noticing people mimicking LLM's speech patterns. I've read blogs from people who I'm quite sure are above pasting AI output directly into their words who nevertheless are sounding more and more like AI as the sum of all their conversations with Claude begins to rub off on them (myself included, probably)
- jchw 2mo agoI have noticed that sometimes in lists I have had the "The ... Solution: ..." sort of repetition. It is probably pre-existing but now that LLMs overuse it I actually am trying to adapt my speech patterns to not, because patterns LLMs overuse quickly become very grating to me.
- post-it 2mo agoI caught myself saying "push back" the other day. I've never said it before, it's a Claude-ism.
- tayo42 2mo agoThat's a corporate phrase that predates the current llm stuff along with things like ping, circle back,table that
- NoMoreNicksLeft 2mo agoIs it? I'd never heard it until Claude (or maybe Gemini was where I first heard it from). Any idea of the time frame when it started being spoken?
- tayo42 2mo agoAt least 5-10 years. Like my whole career. The llms usually remind me of how corporate people talk
- EFreethought 2mo agoReach out to tayo42, and they can provide some color.
- rstagi 2mo agoMaybe I don't use LinkedIn that much, but I saw it especially on X and Reddit... Just today I was on a Reddit post and saw so many AI sloppish comments from people trying to farm karma
- elicash 2mo agoIt amusing that Musk attempted to reverse his purchase of Twitter by citing the number of bots, and then research like this comes out alleging that now 29% of the X's long form articles are fully AI. It's not exactly the same thing, of course, but still interesting the extent to which this type of content is viewed as the business opportunity for him.
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- timpera 2mo agoLinkedIn is definitely flooded with AI slop, but we also need to keep in mind that Pangram really doesn't work that well. I just tried it, wrote a few sentences about my day, and it was flagged as AI-generated (which doesn't surprise me since these tools are known to easily flag writing from people whose native language is not English [1]). I am really suspicious of the 0.1% false positive rate they claim to achieve. [1] https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-detectors-biased-against-non-native-english-writers https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-detectors-biased-against-no...
- cs702 2mo agoAlso, in case you didn't already know, I saw a headline announcing that the sky is usually blue.
- cynicalsecurity 2mo agoAI generated article to promote some product. What a great meta proof.
- volkk 2mo agoWas just thinking today, -- happened to login to LinkedIn, open it up and the entire front page is just AI slop being applauded and liked with people seriously interacting with it as if it's somebody didn't just shit it out in 20s with zero effort. The whole thing needs to die so badly. On Instagram, I'll get fed "real" content, but you read the description and it's this giant 3-4 paragraph thing that I don't bother to read because I know with certainty that it's AI slop. Before AI, the descriptions of sports videos or meme videos were 2 sentences, now they're entire theses. The only people left reading this crap are people that still haven't caught up with the concept of AI slop
- estetlinus 2mo agoLinkedIn has become an AI-slopped wasteland. It’s like the opposite of when boomers found Facebook, which was the weirdest melting pot of zero-integrity posts and comments. Now we have these tech-savvy people generating worthless images and producing generic, emoji-infested takeaways.
- happywanderer 2mo agoI read through LinkedIn posts and it's AI slop all the way down, it's horrendous. Every post is either written entirely by AI or mostly written by AI.
- scientifik 2mo agoLinkedIn is totally useless at this point. - If you're a job seeker, most of the jobs are fake for pretend growth optics. - If you're a senior level or executive you're targeted non-stop by sales people telling you about "the conversations they're having ..." - If you're looking for actual thought leadership or interesting information, you're bombarded with random tik-tok style videos, totally contrived stories and "lessons" to how ordering at Starbucks is like managing cloud infrastructure It's turned into a completely artificial and useless community because Microsoft chased the same growth and engagement metrics as Facebook did, now no one considers it to be a place for serious discussion.
- j2kun 2mo agoIn my view, LinkedIn has never really been a place for serious discussion.
- post-it 2mo ago> If you're a job seeker, most of the jobs are fake for pretend growth optics. Maybe, but it continues to be one of the best places to find work.
- butlike 2mo agoYeah, just not work you want to do
- disgruntledphd2 2mo agoYeah I would say I've gotten basically all my jobs through LinkedIn, over a fifteen year career where I've moved around a lot.
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- skimmed_milk 2mo agoWhere is? I've gotten about 2 interviews via Linkedin, wellfound has little which are the two I know most, Indeed is more useless than even LinkedIn. I used to have decent luck with Who is hiring threads but not recently as there's relatively little for mid level engineers.
- dvt 2mo agoPangram doesn't work, and I wish people would stop treating it as gospel (but the AI/anti-AI grift is real). Here's a fun paradox: I can literally tell ChatGPT: "Say X" and it will say "X"—so that's a case where content is both AI generated and not. What if it changes a few words? Moves some sentences around? Where does something go from human- to AI-generated? (This is the classic Sorites paradox.) Pangram tries to look for common patterns (rule of three, em dashes, etc.) but these are heuristic methods and not to be taken as gospel. There is no provable method to make a distinction between AI and human-generated other than the fact that AI-generated text tends to reek of pseudo-intellectual undergrad with a thesaurus.
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- wgd 2mo agoPangram does work, in the specific sense that when it says something was AI authored it is vanishingly unlikely that it was written by a human (who was not deliberately trying to write like an AI), and IMO getting people to recognize that we actually do have a decent solution in this space now is pretty important if we want the Internet to remain a place for humans and not just bot swarms. > rule of three, em dashes, etc You appear to be misinformed about how Pangram specifically works, it is not based on pattern detection of that sort. I recommend reading their whitepaper, it's a pretty understandable explanation of exactly how they trained their classifier.
- dvt 2mo ago> Pangram does work It's trivial to see how many people think Pangram is absolute trash[1] (because it is). > You appear to be misinformed about how Pangram specifically works, it is not based on pattern detection of that sort. I recommend reading their whitepaper, it's a pretty understandable explanation of exactly how they trained their classifier. I did read their paper (which is, by the way, very scant on details), and they trained their classifier in the laziest way possible: here's a chunk of "human-written" text and here's a chunk of "AI-written" text, put them in the right bucket, and do this a zillion times. Literally zero sophistication. Also: what do you think "pattern recognition" is, if not a "classifier"? [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/academia/comments/1rm11rs/pangram_claims_their_ai_writing_detectors_false/ https://www.reddit.com/r/academia/comments/1rm11rs/pangram_c...
- cvber45345ds 2mo ago" but we don't believe it's inevitable." Best get believing pal, because not only is it inevitable, it represents the last evolution in our societies output. There will be slop from now until eternity. Recalibrate your aesthetics, because everything is going to look like model output. The detection model is flawed, and snake-oil at best. 仕方がない (shikata ga nai).
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- palata 2mo agoMy feeling is that it interferes a lot with "the social media algorithms" and hence with the "infinite wall of random stuff from people you don't know". In the last few years I have been going back to RSS feeds, subscribing to blogs I like. What I lose there is that I don't get suggestions for blogs I don't already know. I genuinely wonder if there could be an opportunity for webrings there. Like blogs could have an RSS feed of "blogs I follow" by the author, and I could choose to follow them or at least visit them and selectively subscribe. The thing is that many times, there is one article I like in a blog but not necessarily the rest. So more than "blogs I follow", it could be "articles I liked". So that if I subscribe to the RSS feed of someone, I get exposed to articles they "bookmarked", and eventually it can help me discover blogs I want to subscribe to. Or maybe it all exists already. Or used to exist, probably.
- floren 2mo agoA del.icio.us idea
- rrvsh 2mo agohttps://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/openring https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/openring https://github.com/lukehsiao/openring-rs https://github.com/lukehsiao/openring-rs seen these around
- Henchman21 2mo agoYou know, I'll be that guy and say the following: Since you stepped back in time, I went back even further. I just stopped consuming content on the web that isn't YouTube, this site, or Kagi News. It's all crap in my estimation and I'm better off without it polluting my brain. Still need to kick HN & YouTube though, it's a WIP. Maybe someday I'll regain the focus to read books in a single sitting again.
- palata 2mo ago> I went back even further Further than carefully selecting the articles I read? I don't understand... I occasionally watch a video on YouTube, but again it's carefully selected. I feel like you're telling me that watching a video on YouTube is bad, but watching the exact same video on a DVD is "old school" and therefore better. I don't mind so much about the fact that I get it over the Internet, I care about quality. I subscribe to a handful of carefully-selected blogs through RSS as a way to easily see when they publish something new (which is rare, because it's quality).
- bcjdjsndon 2mo agoI quit enjoy it tbf
- dukeofdoom 2mo agoIt's still pretty bad at pixel art, and just has this generic look visually. I remember watching this video of this indy game developer that tried to hire an artist for some visuals for cover art for his game, and kept getting sent AI generated stuff by scammers. Finally he did find a real artist, and the cover was really good. But expensive.
- Havoc 2mo agoTbh I’ve always treated it as three things: 1) Glorified Rolodex 2) Place too see which of my peers got promoted or moved dormant 3) Source material for /r/linkedinlunatics Reading the crap in the feed has never been a thing
- Havoc 2mo agoThat's supposed to read moved company...autocorrect
- subygan 2mo agoalmost all platforms are like this now. Every active player in each of these platform is trying to get the most eyeballs in their content / profile. and the silent scrollers are not contributing anything else anyway. We've societally come to the consensus that, we want to reward a race to the bottom slop. passive scrollers by not doing anything about it, active posters by contributing to it. but there is no way else to win in this game. A friend of mine writes the most human curated thoughtful newsletter about AI, spending 100 hours. and maybe 200 people know of its existence.
- FinnKuhn 2mo agoThis isn't just a spam problem, it's a technology making mediocre content economically viable at unprecedented scale. /s If I see a post that starts with this type of sentence structure I don't even bother to read any of it. I feelt like this happens on LinkedIn the most, so I'm happy to finally have some data to back up my observations.
- thansz 2mo agoAI content is everywhere period, conditioning people and other AI in the propagation of more AI content. I started to see articles about mycorrhizal fungi pop up on sites and LLMs. In January of 2026 an evolutionary biologist won a prize regarding the fungi, there were some interviews and media items surrounding it. But then I could trace the original media items to AI content aggregators, which led to other AI generated posts about mycorrhizal fungi, and some of that entered LLM training data, causing LLMs to bring up the topic. And here I am, a human, writing about it, which may get consumed into training pipelines and help disseminate the idea into the future even further.
- ahartmetz 2mo agoI mean, who the hell ever read that utter garbage on LinkedIn anyway?
- stronglikedan 2mo agoThe average type of person that still engages on LinkedIn won't even notice, so there's that...
- yegle 2mo agoNow let's stir the shit further, on LinkedIn group the posters of AI content by country/company.
- redsymbol 2mo agoI wrote a post on linkedin last year titled "Do not use AI to write." Boy, was it controversial. I could not believe how hard some people were pushing back in the comments. Quoting from myself there: "When you write your own words, you are forging your own voice. It is distinctive, conveys your unique world view, and connects with others in a way that is specific to you alone. If you use an AI tool to write for you instead, you lose all of that." That seems blindingly self-evident to me, but apparently a lot of folks disagree. Something else I said: "Writing is hard because thinking is hard. When you write, you forge your thoughts, distinctions, mental models and even feelings into the clarity of precision that the written word demands. When you outsource your writing to an AI tool, you lose more than you know." I guess a lot of people don't want to bother with all that.
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- humanpotato 2mo agoI agree completely; it's been observed "LinkedIn people" are somewhat psychotic.
- ButlerianJihad 2mo agoI hate to break it to you, but most people don't have a compelling voice, and they don't have a cohesive world view, and they typically fail at connecting with others, especially if they're schlepping around on LinkedIn trying to social-media-post their way to a job or networking opportunities. Also there are so many folks, especially on LI, who don't even have fluent English, or decent grammar, and therefore behind the filter of an erudite LLM is an excellent place to stay, pull some levers, and plop out some really compelling word-salad. That is just the way of the world today. Whether people are doing minimal processing, through SpellCheck or Grammarly, or just prompting an LLM to generate walls of text, they're using assistance to actually find their voice, or filter their own weak voice through something that will win friends and influence more people than they ever could on their own.
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- deepsquirrelnet 2mo agoI think it's hilarious. LinkedIn is rushing to de-legitimize themselves so hard that they're inventing a new market for someone else to step into. Apparently indeed doesn't want to take it... not sure what's going on there.
- icedchai 2mo agoI have several AI-content posters in my feed. Many of these are folks that previously used the term "thought leadership" non-ironically. I guess Claude and ChatGPT are the thought leaders now...
- preisschild 2mo ago> I guess Claude and ChatGPT are the thought leaders now... Even worse. Its actually the companies and their founders. See Musk's Grok for a extreme version of this.
- PacificSpecific 2mo agoHonestly I can't tell the difference with LinkedIn. Feels the same as it's ever been
- iamleppert 2mo agoPeople here need to stop complaining about the train, and get on board. It's easier than ever before to build a network that can later be used for distribution and monetization. Does it really matter that content is authentically organic? We are tech people after all...our lives are practically synthetic and artificial. It's like getting upset because one artificial sweetener is sweeter than another. If anything, I think people are triggered by it all because it exposes something more deep in people -- most people don't want to admit most of their lives have been wasted in front of a computer. But here we are. So stop complaining and start coming up with more creative uses of AI writing if you have a problem with it.
- tavavex 2mo ago"Building a network" is getting harder and may soon become completely impossible. Apparently when the total number of people who are interested in you or whatever you're selling doesn't increase and are instead diluted by piles of automatically-generated, void-filling slosh, it gets harder to spot what's really valuable. Everyone had to wade through the swamps now, so instead of surrendering more of their time to try and find anything worthwhile, people retreat from these places into their own communities. I'm sure none of that matters though. You've already shown what really matters, the only thing that's valuable in the world - money. Maybe if those naysayers just shut up and got into the slurry pit like the rest of us normal people, they'd be convinced not to care about silly things that aren't money. After all, using a computer is 'artificial' or something. Even if you used those screens to connect with real people or do things for someone, the computeriness means that you might as well forego everything and everyone now. It was on a screen after all. So stop caring and play along with my numbers going up party. I may not be striving to do anything but value extraction, but at least it's going to make the most important number really big.
- iamleppert 2mo agoVery bold of you to think we aren’t already past the point where “what’s valuable” is only human created. Maybe some truly exceptional people can create works that are exceptional but it’s only a matter of time before the models usurp them too. Instead of shaking your fist at a world you don’t like, make peace with it.
- wkjagt 2mo agoI really miss the old internet. Thinking back, it was awesome. Even the beginning of social networks. I remember how amazed I was by things like Friendfeed. And it felt like things were only getting more awesome all the time. Even technologies like web sockets felt like it would make the Internet even more interactive and magical. I guess we're never going back to that.
- ButlerianJihad 2mo agoLinkedIn is really the first place I experienced LLM-generated content at scale. I did not know it at the time. I just figured, because the corporate world tends to adopt standards/templates and coalesce around a certain lingo, that this was the way people were posting to LI social media. But indeed as I later found out, there were many classic LLM tells built into all those posts. Of course, I invariably found those LLM posts to be vacuous and pointless and so it was very easy to begin skimming right past them as I figured out they were cut from the same cloth. To LinkedIn's credit, though: in 2020 I landed "my pandemic job", a dream job that was 100% remote (thanks to the lockdowns) and had a 100% flexible schedule and I had a really great time with the enjoyable work I was doing. This job was somehow landed through LinkedIn. To this day, I cannot recall how or when I applied to the company. But I know I was filling out "1-Click Apply" forms there, and I had splashed up my involvement with the community college (though I would not actually graduate from college for another 3 years) and eventually a recruiter telephoned me to ask if I was interested. And as I was juggling some crazy issues in my personal life along with the pandemic lockdowns, I had to assure the recruiter multiple times: yes I'm interested, no please do not hang up, yes please let us continue with your process! And it was that sort of tenacity that landed the initial job, and helped me hang on to this employer through M&A and multiple job-role changes. They formally terminated me about 4 times, but I was hired 5 times so it sort of evened out, I suppose. If it were not for LinkedIn or community college, that recruiter never would've found me. I never would've got that job. My life would be so different, especially my pandemic-lockdown life! So grateful. Ironically, my employer (EdTech industry) began to 100% embrace LLMs for their students and even offered a front-page LLM for students to ask about their homework, and other assignments. It was definitely crazy times for us, as we were the ones tasked with detecting plagiarism and other types of cheating in that homework, while students were being actively encouraged to tap into LLM-based resources for answers...
- armoredmeatball 2mo agoWhat if the people that post on LinkedIn are actually just being themselves
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- Teynah 2mo agoAnd LinkedIn is probably the platform where AI writing is easiest to spot without a detector
- nitwit005 2mo agoThis is, of course, an ad. It's written as-if their AI detection is flawless, but that seems unlikely. They have this in this article: > our latest AI detection model, which achieves a 0.01% false positive rate But, then in their linked article on false positives, they suggest you should have something far larger than most social media posts: > The text is long enough (over a couple hundred words)
- ingvay7 2mo agoLinkedin used to be useful primarily for job hunting and keeping in touch with those who you know professionally but would prefer not add to any personal social channels (I dont need my coleagues to know i was a key stakeholder at the mud party at Wacken metal fest). I am not sure anymore since everyone who posts seems to be an AI expert pontificating about all-things- AI and how they can help me learn more (just click their link in the comments!). Its truly become a mud pit of people stepping on each other to get noticed. With a shitty job market, I think the below two prominent suggestions from linkedin have truly "transformed" this site. "Members who post once per week on average see up to 4x more profile views." "Members who comment once per week on average see up to 3x more profile views." Even posting a polite congratulatory comment to someone you admire is now also being exploited for self gain and views.
- dwa3592 2mo agoWhat I agree with in this article is that there is shit ton of slop on the internet today. What I disagree with is that if pangram says it's human, then it's not AI. That is hardly the case. Pangram fails spectacularly in detecting AI. https://github.com/deepanwadhwa/ai_detector_fails/blob/main/pangram/1_modified_gemini_response.png https://github.com/deepanwadhwa/ai_detector_fails/blob/main/... - I posted this link in another thread the other day. I might do more of these tests in the upcoming days and put universal jailbreaks for people to fool these 'AI detectors'.
- CM30 2mo agoNot too surprising unfortunately. LinkedIn is all about the hustle, and for most people that's about putting as little as effort as possible into 'content' you hope will pay off. Mix a platform known for the get rich quick mindset with a piece of tech designed to make creating things as effortless as possible, and you get LinkedIn. That said, I think there are two things worth noting about that site: 1. The content was mostly slop before AI became a thing, AI has just increased the amount of it tenfold. 2. It's still not the worst content on the site. As one check of LinkedIn Lunatics shows all too well, there's a depressingly large number of people who seem to treat the site like a personal diary, and rant about their political views on what's supposed to be a business focused network. At this point, LinkedIn is basically Twitter/X wearing a suit and tie. As for the other sites mentioned... yeah, those track too. Medium and Reddit were already being gamed like there was no tomorrow before AI entered the picture, now it's just become even easier for the parasites to flood them with garbage. Twitter/X is basically the wild west at this point, and Substack seems to appeal pretty heavily to the types of people that absolutely love AI and everything about it.
- wj 2mo agoTrue about AI slop pre-AI. Before 2026 my LinkedIn feed was mostly about how to get rich buying real estate. AI is an improvement. I would like to remove the AI-generated content and any low-effort content from my LinkedIn feed. There can be some great stuff in there but a lot of it isn't worth my attention. Probably going to explore some browser plugins with that because the algorithm doesn't seem to do the best job giving me content that is interesting to me. It may be giving me topics I enjoy reading about now (AI) but not the level of "thought leadership" I want. Substack is better for that these days. I write both places because I enjoy writing.
- lordnacho 2mo agoBut that's LinkedIn working as intended. Nobody thinks they are about to read an actual analysis of some industry relevant development. People aren't there to provide advice about how to "connect to your true self" either. You post on LinkedIn to say "hey I'm alive, and I'm around for this kind of thing". Even if you are just commenting, people will see you. When you post something, people look at your CV, and they are either going to offer you to interview for a job or other business opportunity. The actual content matters very little. Most of it is people saying "hey I'm still a lawyer, don't forget me next time you need one".
- mmarian 2mo agoI find it ok once you heavily filter the content. But you need to put in a lot of effort.
- visiondude 2mo agoyeah i’ve been looking for online social spaces that have some sort of human verification to reduce my slop exposure. the PRSN app that launched recently seems promising but it’s empty rn.
- Bender 2mo agoI think it would require people create some naughty limericks, make foul jokes, rule34, rekt and ethnic slurs. Those seem to be the only things that mainstream AI have been tuned to avoid. There's probably a way to jailbreak that for a little bit but it would get patched.
- sometimelurker 2mo agoCan they add hackernews to their study analysis? And do a measure over time?
- ornornor 2mo agoI too loathe LinkedIn. However it kinda feels like you have to use it if you’re a freelance senior developer and want to find projects. At least that’s what many B2B people say. So I’m wondering: long term freelancers who make a living out of freelancing (and I’m not talking employee type of positions where you’re basically an employee but get paid on invoices), where and how do you acquire customers if not on LinkedIn? How do you not participate in the LinkedIn AI slop and still fill your pipeline?
- TrackerFF 2mo agoAI has just accelerated what has always been out there. LinkedIn has more or less always been a place where people write scripted BS stories, AI just made it a lot easier.
- zerobees 2mo agoI don't like this "just" framing. It's like saying that crushing orphans was always a thing and Microsoft Orphan Crusher 2000 is just making it easier. It's a qualitative change. It used to cost time and effort to produce slop, which gave genuine content a fighting chance. Now, the cost is basically zero, so there's no limit to how much trash you can produce.
- j-bos 2mo agoNot on linkedin, anyone sincereposting there was swing at rain bands.
- nxpnsv 2mo agoIt's been Microsoft Orphan Crusher 360+ with copilot for a good long while now...
- rightbyte 2mo agoI think MS is mixing up the Xbox and Office ordinals.
- molybd3num 2mo agoi feel for buzzfeed
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- muldvarp 2mo agoMaking things easier (or cheaper) is the entire point of AI. If AI is great because it makes writing software easier (or cheaper), then AI is also terrible when it makes publishing slop easier (or cheaper).
- JimsonYang 2mo agoReddit has 13% bots? I dont believe it, reddit is swarmed with engagement farms and auto reply bots
- zuzululu 2mo agohow are they built, farmed ? residential proxies ?
- JimsonYang 2mo agoClarify your question? Are you asking how are they built? I wouldnt know, but ive been offered services to engage in reddit marketing
- II2II 2mo agoIt probably depends upon where you're looking. I never go to the front page, or even mildly popular subreddits for that matter. Ignoring the bot used for moderation, I would be surprised if 1% of the traffic on the subreddits I visit is generated by bots. It wouldn't surprise me if most of Reddit was like that, but you won't hear about them since they aren't the focus of everyone's attention.
- Chu4eeno 2mo agoMost bots on reddit are too cheap to use LLMs, from when I moderated most seemed to just have harvested a bunch of old comments and links that they reposted.
- elictronic 2mo agoDead internet theory is becoming real. I’m looking forward to the elections coming up. Not many times I get to completely disengage from every online entity. Every time I post online I just assume I am talking to a LLM, with the elections I get to stop assuming.
- franze 2mo agoI love LinkedIn. Biggest Art Project in Human Existence!
- ahartmetz 2mo ago24/7 The Yes Men feed https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yes_Men https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yes_Men
- boombapoom 2mo agohonestly, im glad that linkedin is getting nuked. no one needs that content feed anyways
- maxgashkov 2mo ago[dead]
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- zelphirkalt 2mo agoIt's especially "funny", when "Senior" software engineers post AI spam, to inform you about solving Fibonacci recursively, as if this was just the first day they learned about the Fibonacci sequence.
- Saphake 2mo agoI feel like we're weeks or months away from stronger AI detection pushing it down on these platforms.
- janalsncm 2mo agoTo some extent, having slop in feeds is a platform’s choice, either implicit or explicit. In LI’s case it seems to be explicit since they added a slop button. YouTube has a similar problem with Shorts.
- mrbluecoat 2mo ago..and YouTube Music
- ShinyLeftPad 2mo agoSponsored by a company that sells "LLM detection", funded by the same VCs that fund LLM products, destined to be snake oil because both sides converge by design, humans sound like LLMs and LLMs sound like humans.
- hsuduebc2 2mo agoThe second I see a rocket, star, or flame emoji, I stop reading. The overwhelming amount of bullshit on this site is fascinating. Bullshitters posting bullshit while other bullshitters react with “Interesting.” They don't even remove the em dashes! It is absolutely useless for actively searching for a job. Their job search is terrible and constantly shows unrelated results. The only useful part is that recruiters can contact you directly, which is how most jobs seem to be filled today.
- joshmn 2mo agoSometimes I'll search LinkedIn for posts on internet piracy. It's usually companies or those affiliated with companies promoting their anti-piracy product—typically streaming. I'd wager about 90% of them are straight-up, uninspired LLM-generated slop. And so I'll comment asking them why it's okay to use a tool that was built on the backs of content it wasn't properly licensed to use to generate a post promoting an anti-piracy product. I'm yet to get a good response, if any. (Sorry for the word salad.) I've started collecting some of these: https://josh.mn/anti-piracy https://josh.mn/anti-piracy (Note: I went to federal prison for internet piracy)
- rsynnott 2mo agoFortunately, LinkedIn writing was always so awful that no-one notices.
- insane_dreamer 2mo agoLinkedIn content has always been useless crap; now it's just AI generated crap. No much difference.
- jgalt212 2mo agoTo be fair, is AI content on LinkedIn really a step backwards?
- basketbaseb 2mo agoCan someone explain all the comments I see on LinkedIn that are clearly AI generated and are often just a single word like “claude” or similar? Is this to boost the reach of the commenter or author of the post? Something else? I see it often from a connection on LinkedIn who I know is a real person, but for some reason has given access to his account to an LLM. It’s baffling.
- dezmou 2mo agoI believe those comment are here when the post say something like "comment claude if you want to receive my e-book"
- nprateem 2mo agoWatching YouTube recently and lots of videos are clearly entirely scripted by AI, shit analogies and all. You can almost hear the emdashes. It really is painful watching.
- dowonseo 2mo agoDoes anyone actually use LinkedIn as social network? Excluding the job browsing
- snthpy 2mo agoLinkedIn content that hasn't been written by AI might as well have been. There's a reason i read HN and not LI.
- LexSiga 2mo agoA social media without penalising mechanism will always favour spam.
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- garyclarke27 2mo agoPangram claims they detect AI-generated content with 99.98% accuracy. I'm sceptical that it can be anywhere near that, but that's subjective based on my instinct, does anyone have more objective data on this accuracy?
- TomMasz 2mo agoThe LinkedIn post pop-up has an AI button at the bottom. It's no wonder people are using it.
- millerm 2mo agoThe only thing good to come out of LinkedIn is Kafka. That's it. I deleted my account about a year ago. It does suck, I lost all those "network connections" from past contracts and employers. It's so hard to keep up with people now. So many people rely on those dang third party sites. It did cause harm to me by leaving it, as I can't find a job. I have no idea how to find one anymore. That site got so bad that it became useless and predatory. It beat me down and caused my depression to worsen. I had to leave. I couldn't handle all the fake jobs, the calls that never happened, the constant filling out of applications (hey, Workplace you suck too, why can't we just allow each employer to see our resume when asked and not have 100+ accounts? Yeah, you're harvesting for others as well), the constant messaging from fake recruiters, the fake articles, the HR worshiping sycophants with their cringe posts... you know the list. It goes on an on. Ok, I'm done rambling. I'm depressed again. I'll run out of $ soon and then...
- metoobruh 2mo agoJust wanted to say I feel ya man. I've been LONG term unemployed also. In my 40s now and my life is continually circling the drain. Wish I had good advice to give, but there is none to be found. There's not much hope out there and things are only going to get worse as we are headed into economic collapse. The world is in a really, really shitty place right now.
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- lizardking 2mo agoMy LI feed is almost entirely AI slop at this point. I have second-hand embarrassment for all the people who are obliviously broadcasting "thought leadership" that is transparently the work of AI to their entire networks.
- ezst 2mo agoLinkedIn has always been a weird and uncanny place, LLMs somehow managed to make that effect much worse and unsettling.
- muhammadali511 2mo ago[dead]