Most comments on my LinkedIn posts look like this lately: Slop. Of course. Viruses have no metabolism of their own and need a host to reproduce. Slop comments regurgitate back to me what I wrote (the host) with zero value. My desire to be on LinkedIn is getting closer to dentist-visit level ever since the platform enabled and encouraged the use of AI. But LinkedIn is seeing the problem. In 10 weeks, the platform: Deployed systems that identify slop and limit its distribution beyond a poster’s immediate network. Started testing a “Seems like AI slop” button for users to flag posts and comments. Killed its own “Enhance post” button , replacing…
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