LinkedIn introduces button to report AI-generated content, and crypto marketers should pay attention

LinkedIn just gave its 1 billion-plus users a new weapon against the flood of robotic content clogging their feeds. The professional networking platform introduced a “Seems like AI slop” reporting option on July 30, letting members flag posts they suspect were churned out by a machine. The feature lives under the three-dot menu on individual posts. Your clicks feed LinkedIn’s detection models, training the platform to better identify and suppress low-quality AI content at scale. The AI slop problem, by the numbers Research from Pangram Labs found that 41% of long-form LinkedIn posts and 30% of short-form posts were likely generated by AI. That makes LinkedIn the leader among major social networks for AI content volume. Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan called AI slop “a top priority.” The reporting tool is part of a broader cleanup effort that began in May 2026, when LinkedIn started actively detecting, downranking, and disincentivizing automated or generic postings. LinkedIn had previously implemented policies to label AI content starting in 2024. The new approach shifts from passive disclosure to active community policing, giving users a direct role in content moderation. Why...