More Than 1 Million People Flag AI Slop on LinkedIn

Earlier this month, LinkedIn introduced an in-app button that lets users flag posts marked as "AI slop" — content the platform describes as low-substance and low-effort. According to Hari Srinivasan, the company's chief product officer, more than 1 million users made use of the feature within its first two weeks.

Sam Corrao Clannon, LinkedIn's head of creator products, defines "AI slop" as text that looks polished and well-crafted on the surface but offers no personal experience, perspective or original thought — content posted purely to take up space and grab attention. The feature isn't aimed at people using AI to polish their writing; it targets useless, "slop" posts specifically.

Importantly, flagging a post doesn't automatically affect its overall distribution — it only changes what the flagging user sees in their own feed. Srinivasan notes that no single signal determines how far content spreads; the platform weighs many factors together and has safeguards against coordinated, bad-faith attacks.

Still, the impact is measurable: content LinkedIn classifies as AI slop has seen views drop by 40% over the past few weeks. Users who receive a high volume of complaints get a special notification — a warning rather than a punishment. At the same time, LinkedIn is encouraging users to complete identity verification confirming they're real people, using it as one more signal for filtering content — all part of an effort to stay ahead of the rising tide of empty AI-generated content.