LinkedIn Is Done Hosting Content Nobody Wrote
LinkedIn Is Done Hosting Content Nobody Wrote
Publish Date: 2026-05-27 18:05:00
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LinkedIn has offered artificial intelligence content tools to its over 1.3 billion members for more than two years. Now it is training a different kind of AI to find and suppress what those tools helped produce.
Content creation on the platform is up 14% year over year, LinkedIn Vice President and Executive Editor Laura Lorenzetti, per a May 19 Entrepreneur report. Much of it has started to look and sound the same. Feeds that once surfaced human perspective now return something closer to a single synthetic voice. They’re polished, AI-generated posts that sound vaguely inspirational and say nothing.
LinkedIn is changing its recommendation systems, targeting what it calls “AI slop,” or posts and comments that lack original perspective, the report said. Flagged content won’t be removed but will be suppressed so it doesn’t spread beyond a user’s immediate network. The crackdown extends to comments. Bot-generated and generic AI replies that do little more than summarize the posts they’re responding to are also in scope.
“When AI is overused, especially at scale and in an automated way, it dilutes the valuable insights that real human conversations can spark,” Lorenzetti said in a May 20 blog post. “It’s OK to use AI to help you write, but your posts and comments need to represent your voice and your perspectives. The ultimate value comes from the human behind the tool.”
The irony is difficult to ignore. LinkedIn’s parent company, Microsoft, has been among the most aggressive promoters of generative AI tools across its product suite. LinkedIn itself offers a prominent “rewrite with AI” button in its post composer.
The company is not trying to penalize users for using AI, only for posting content that lacks original insight, according to the Entrepreneur report.
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