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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Technology
Andrew Griffin

LinkedIn takes urgent action to stop ‘AI slop’ filling up its app

LinkedIn is taking urgent action to stop “AI slop” filling its platform.

The business social network has received sustained criticism in recent weeks over the increasing amount of low-quality, automatically generated posts that are shown to users. It appears to be the result of professionals who wish to promote themselves and increase their visibility by sharing posts on the site – but then hand the actual writing of them to chatbots such as ChatGPT or Claude.

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