LinkedIn is introducing a new feature that lets users click a ‘seems like AI slop’ button to flag low-quality, AI-generated content in their feed.

The move, announced by Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan, is part of a broader effort to reduce the amount of inauthentic posts on the Microsoft-owned social network.

The button provides signal to train LinkedIn‘s AI models to better identify slop, and the company is also deploying new classifiers to limit such content in suggested recommendations from outside a user’s network.

Additionally, LinkedIn is blocking ‘hundreds of thousands’ of automated comment attempts daily and millions of other automation attempts in recent months.

The platform will also privately notify users when their own content is perceived as inauthentic due to heavy AI use, with the aim of encouraging improvement rather than penalizing genuine writers.

Notably, LinkedIn is retiring its ‘enhance your post’ AI feature and replacing it with a proofreading tool that preserves the user’s voice.

Other updates include expanded verification tools for profiles and pages and an option to block comments from specific company pages.

The announcement reflects a wider industry trend: Substack recently partnered with Pangram to help identify AI-written content, and Digg shut down its Reddit competitor in March citing bot problems.

Cloudflare has reported that bot traffic now exceeds human-generated requests on the web, a milestone reached faster than anticipated.