LinkedIn AI Slop Button Passes a Million Users

Over a million people have used the LinkedIn AI slop button

LinkedIn announced a button labeled "Seems like AI slop" on 30 July 2026, and chief product officer Hari Srinivasan wrote in a Thursday post that "over a million people" had clicked it. The Verge reported that post on 21 August 2026.

"AI slop" is a common name for low-quality filler written by AI, and it is the label on LinkedIn's button. LinkedIn says a lot of people have already used the button, and Srinivasan's figure counts people, not clicks. The report gives no total for clicks.

Where to find "Seems like AI slop" on a LinkedIn post

The option is in the three dots menu on a LinkedIn post, under the label "Seems like AI slop". LinkedIn announced it on 30 July 2026. It came with classifiers, the programs that judge whether a post was written by AI, and with the removal of a feature that offered to "enhance your post" with AI.

LinkedIn calls the classifiers "new and improved". The Verge's report does not say what the button does to a post once someone selects it.

Pangram rated 41% of LinkedIn longform posts AI-made

A few weeks before LinkedIn announced the button, the AI detector Pangram flagged 41% of LinkedIn's longform posts as fully AI-generated. A detector is a tool that scores whether a text was written by AI. 404 Media reported the result.

The 41% is Pangram's finding, not a number LinkedIn produced. Srinivasan said at the time that AI slop is "a top priority for all of us." Earlier in 2026, LinkedIn had also said it would crack down on comments that users create at scale with little or no human involvement.

LinkedIn says AI slop posts now get 40% fewer views

In his Thursday post, Srinivasan said users are now seeing 40% fewer views on what LinkedIn classifies as AI slop than a few weeks earlier. The figure is the company's own, and it rests on its own classification of which posts count as AI slop.

The number describes views of posts LinkedIn has already classified. It does not say how many such posts there are. The Verge says it sounds as if the platform's changes may be making a difference.

What Hari Srinivasan says LinkedIn will tell authors

LinkedIn is adding a message for people who make a post, telling them when some members said the post seems like AI. The wording is "Some members told us this post seems like AI." The Verge says LinkedIn is adding it, and does not say it is live yet.

Srinivasan described the thinking behind it this way: LinkedIn approached the change assuming good intent. He added that he is increasingly conscious of how not to sound like AI himself, and that the goal is to provide helpful feedback.

Points the report leaves open

The Verge's report of 21 August 2026 leaves six things open. It does not say:

• how LinkedIn decides that a post is AI slop
• how many posts were classified
• how the 40% was measured
• when the message to authors goes live
• what an author can do after seeing the message
• how many times the button was clicked in total

Each number here comes from one party. The million people and the 40% fewer views come from LinkedIn, through Srinivasan's post, and the 41% comes from Pangram. Everything above is as of 21 August 2026.