LinkedIn Fights AI Content with a Reporting Button

LinkedIn Fights AI Content with a Reporting Button

LinkedIn is introducing a button that allows users to report posts that appear to be generated by AI. As part of a series of updates aimed at reducing the volume of low-quality content on the platform, this button enables users to flag a post as something that "seems to be AI."

This new feature is part of a broader initiative to decrease the amount of content that is clearly generated by AI. According to the AI detector Pangram, 41% of long posts on LinkedIn have been identified as fully generated by AI, as reported by 404Media.

Hari Srinivasan, product director, stated in a post: "Low-quality content generated by AI is a priority for all of us. We really care about this." In addition to the reporting button, LinkedIn is ramping up the development of new classifiers to determine "whether a post is AI or generally low-quality content," which will help "reduce the amount of low-quality content you might see in suggested content and from outside your network."

The new reporting button is accessible in the three-dot menu on posts. When I click on it, LinkedIn hides the post and displays a message thanking me for my feedback.

Srinivasan explains that this button will help LinkedIn to "adjust our models and improve news feeds." The company is also testing a method to show users that others believe their posts seem inauthentic or contain excessive use of AI.

Additionally, LinkedIn is removing a feature that used AI to "enhance" a post and will replace it with a "feature that rewrites your words but does not change your voice," according to Srinivasan.